Ottobot

Ottonomy (founded 2020 by chief executive Ritukar Vijay; US-based in Brooklyn with manufacturing in India) makes the Ottobot, a Level-4 autonomous four-wheeled delivery robot whose differentiator is customizable modular cabins, in an industrial Ottobot 2.0 and a narrower Ottobot 3.0 for tight spaces such as hospital elevators, operating in airports, hospitals, and curbside last-mile settings. The registry records it at commercial maturity at the low end: its strongest independently reported scale is roughly 2,000 deliveries with zero safety incidents at Cincinnati's CVG airport, alongside a deployment at Rome Fiumicino with investment from Aeroporti di Roma Ventures, and it remained active and expanding in 2026 with a Rio Tinto mining-village pilot with Sodexo in March 2026. A correction to the dispatch's question of whether Ottonomy sells robots: it does not, operating instead a robots-as-a-service leasing model at about $999 per robot per month on one-to-five-year contracts plus a software platform, making it a fixed-fee RaaS lessor rather than a hardware seller or a classic captive operator. Its commercial tier rests on paying RaaS customers and the independently reported CVG service, though much of its broader footprint is pilots and its scale claims are company-sourced. Its total funding is unverified with sources conflicting between about $4.9 million and $7.8 million, and figures such as 50 robots operating with 500 ordered and 200 deploying in 2026, a $5 million 2026 revenue target, a 14-city footprint, and the contextual-AI technical framing are company-sourced and not independently verified.

Yes. Ottobot is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Ottobot's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Runtime: 6 h; Max speed: 8 km/h; Weight: 90.7 kg; Payload: 70 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Ottobot is made by Ottonomy, based in Cincinnati, OH, USA, founded in 2020.

2 verified deployments of Ottobot are on the DEPLOY registry, including at CVG Airport, Kentucky, USA, Cincinnati.

Ottobot is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable sidewalk robots to Ottobot include Starship Bot, Serve Gen 3, Avride delivery robot, Starship Delivery Robot.

Ottobot and Starship Bot (Starship Technologies · 41 deployments) are both sidewalk robots on the DEPLOY registry. Ottobot has 2 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Ottobot ranks in roughly the top 49% of sidewalk models tracked by the registry.

Ottobot is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

Ottobot has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

The Ottobot is an autonomous delivery robot that delivers medicines, lab samples, retail packages, and critical materials. It operates curbside, across campuses, and indoors. Multiple cabins allow it to deliver more items per trip. Ottonomy has partnered with Norwegian Post Office for sidewalk delivery trials.