The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Tortoise: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Tortoise is a US autonomous mobility company developing low-speed autonomous vehicles (LSAVs) for last-mile delivery and campus transport. Provides mobility-as-a-service platform for retirement communities, corporate campuses, and planned communities.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Robot
Focus
Technology
Product
Platform
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Tortoise has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Altus Power1× joint
Most recent
Tortoise on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- David Graham CEOsecondary-verified
- Dmitry Shevelenko Co-founder and Presidentsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Dmitry Shevelenkono longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Tortoise.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Tortoise in third-party press
AMD Vs. NVDA: The Tortoise Keeps Pushing Ahead, Heedless Of The Hare's Rapid Pace
YouTuber builds 7 times larger Arduino tortoise bot that still navigates autonomously - Interesting Engineering
How One Builder Made an Arduino Tortoise Bot Seven Times Bigger and Kept It Fully Operational - TechEBlog -
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Mammotion7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Tortoise has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Altus Power1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Tortoise Capital x Altus Power (Solar Asset Sale)withAltus Powerinvestment—concludedoperating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Tortoise.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Mammotion7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Tortoise from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
AMD Vs. NVDA: The Tortoise Keeps Pushing Ahead, Heedless Of The Hare's Rapid Pace
YouTuber builds 7 times larger Arduino tortoise bot that still navigates autonomously - Interesting Engineering
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How One Builder Made an Arduino Tortoise Bot Seven Times Bigger and Kept It Fully Operational - TechEBlog -
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The Tortoises That Inspired Modern Robotics - Nautilus
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Chimpanzee Adopts Camera Disguised as a Tortoise - PetaPixel
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Robots with the secrets of turtles: Reducing the cost of transport through diagonal gait - Tech Xplore
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Robotics needs its ChatGPT moment - Fast Company
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This Amphibious Robotic Turtle Can Morph Its Legs Into Flippers - The World Economic Forum
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Transforming turtle robot can walk on land and swim through water - New Scientist
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Robotics startup Tortoise is testing mobile vending machines in a Walmart parking lot. "You get what you want and go." - Business Insider
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Sodexo Live! and Tortoise team up to debut first-ever mobile vending robot in a convention center during Comic-Con 2022 - Sodexo North America
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Tortoise pivots away from robotic delivery toward mobile stores - TechCrunch
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/tortoise.md
- RSS feed: /companies/tortoise/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6ef0a519-f52d-4fea-9dd1-74b94f3f3ce0
- Revision history: /companies/tortoise/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Mammotion7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Tortoise draws attention at the 23rd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026