# OTTO Motors: company

Canonical ID: `a8d842fa-7c0a-4173-92d9-4e5e62c20b77`

## Key facts

- **Robot:** High-payload autonomous mobile robots for manufacturing and warehousing
- **Parent:** Clearpath Robotics
- **Backers:** Acquired by Rockwell Automation in 2023 for roughly $550M–$600M, announced September 5 and closed in October
- **Stage:** Now operates as OTTO by Rockwell Automation under a major industrial-automation parent
- **Focus:** Distinct from lighter picking robots, targeting heavy-duty material handling
- **CEO & Founder:** Matt Rendall
- **Series C:** $29M
- **Key products:** Otto 600, Otto 1500 AMRs
- **Claim:** Some of the largest AMR fleets in North America

- **Slug:** otto-motors
- **Status:** Rockwell Automation subsidiary (acquired 2023)
- **Founded:** 2015
- **HQ:** Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

## Models

- [OTTO 1500](/models/otto-motors-otto-1500.md) (amr) (id: `4ff4383c-3adc-4ba1-ba28-73cf4cafc525`)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (3)

1. **Acquisition close (company primary)** · https://ottomotors.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/rockwell-automation-completes-acquisition-of-autonomous-robotics-leader-clearpath-robotics-and-its-industrial-offering-otto-motors/ · 2023-10-02
2. **Acquirer primary release** · https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/Rockwell-Automation-completes-acquisition-of-autonomous-robotics-leader-Clearpath-Robotics-and-its-industrial-offering-OTTO-Motors.html · 2023-10-02
3. **Deal value ~$550M-$600M, independent coverage** · https://www.therobotreport.com/rbr50-spotlight-rockwell-automations-acquisition-otto-motors-all-around-win/

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