On October 29, 2026, telehealth company Ro, which built its business on ED and men's sexual health before expanding into weight loss, hair, fertility and more, launched Robin, an AI health agent. CEO and co-founder Zach Reitano previewed it exclusively for Business Insider. Robin works from information already stored in a patient's Ro account, including clinician notes, patient feedback, prescriptions and Apple Health data. It handles routine tasks like managing side effects and meal planning, and it can suggest medication changes or dosing tweaks and draft a note to the patient's doctor if the patient wants one. Ro is pitching it as more personalized than a general chatbot because it needs less prompting and fewer uploads.

Why It Matters

Ro and [Hims & Hers](/stories/hims-ftc-data-privacy-lawsuit) turned ED prescriptions into a subscription business. AI agents are the next battleground for keeping those patients. An agent that suggests dose changes for sexual-health or GLP-1 prescriptions will draw regulatory attention, because the line between "suggestion" and prescribing will be contested. The data side matters too: an agent reading Apple Health and clinician notes makes Ro a bigger holder of sensitive health data at a time when the FTC is suing Hims over data practices and a [jury has already found CIPA wiretap liability](/stories/flo-settlement-meta-damages-fight) in a femtech app. For men's-health competitors (Hims, Novant's [virtual men's clinic](/stories/novant-virtual-mens-health-clinic), Mistr and others), conversational AI that keeps patients inside one platform is quickly becoming a baseline feature.

Reitano's longer-term plan is bigger than a chatbot. He described Robin as a "quarterback" for a patient's care. The idea is to identify where Ro patients get sent to outside specialists and then bring more of that care in-house. "We hope to be able to just continue to increase those concentric circles, where instead of saying you might be better suited outside of the Ro ecosystem, we would want you to be better suited in it," he told BI, and he agreed that a full-service virtual clinic is the goal. Brown University telehealth researcher Dr. Ateev Mehrotra told BI the premise makes sense but asked for proof: "I would love some evidence before millions of Americans start doing this."

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Update — 2026-10-30

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