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title: "RoadBotics: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "American AI startup for road and pavement assessment; spun out of Carnegie Mellon University; acquired by Michelin in 2022"
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-roadbotics
type: Organization
wikidata: Q140177921
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# RoadBotics

> American AI startup for road and pavement assessment; spun out of Carnegie Mellon University; acquired by Michelin in 2022

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-roadbotics

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2016-01-01
- Headquarters: Pittsburgh
- Status: subsidiary
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Key people

- Ben Schmidt, founder (American entrepreneur and engineer; founder and CEO of HeyLoopy, co-founder of RoadBotics)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2019-07-23: Form D, USD 7.5 million sold of a USD 7.5 million offering, 7 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759811/000089843219001004/))
- 2018-11-28: Form D, USD 3.6 million sold of a USD 3.9 million offering, 19 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759811/000089843218001201/))

## Ownership

Parent: [Michelin](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-michelin.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on RoadBotics, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-roadbotics#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140177921, read 2026-11-11
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001759811

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