Deployment
Ottobot at Cincinnati
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.
Ottobot by Ottonomy · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
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- Markdown mirror: /deployments/ottonomy-ottobot-cvg-airport.md
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- REST API: /v1/robots/ab0ca87c-34b3-486e-a1ba-09096f888d32
- Data documentation: /data
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Footage
Ottonomy's footage of its Ottobot autonomous delivery robot. Supervised autonomy operating in geofenced settings such as airports, retail, and curbside; remote oversight applies in practice.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Model
- Ottobot
- Company
- Ottonomy
- Location
- Cincinnati
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2021-08-01
- ID
ab0ca87c-34b3-486e-a1ba-09096f888d32
Sources (2)
- Ottonomy: CVG Airport autonomous delivery deployment, 2021 · https://ottonomy.io/news/cvg-airport-deployment-2021/
- CVG Press Release: Autonomous delivery robots debut at Cincinnati Airport · https://www.gocvg.com/about/press-room/cvg-debuts-autonomous-delivery-robots
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: sidewalk
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Ottobot at Cincinnati.Common questions
- What is the Ottobot deployment at Cincinnati?
- Ottobot, built by Ottonomy, is recorded as a deployment at Cincinnati on the DEPLOY registry. Ottonomy operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Ottobot at Cincinnati?
- Ottonomy, the manufacturer of Ottobot, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the Ottobot deployment at Cincinnati go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting August 1, 2021 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Ottobot deployment at Cincinnati?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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