At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, California-based Ottonomy unveiled Ottobot, a fully autonomous delivery robot for indoor and outdoor environments.

Leveraging contextual mapping and navigation technologies, Ottonomy’s proprietary technology enables fully autonomous delivery for retail and restaurant industries.

Ottobots form a fleet of fully autonomous delivery robots for restaurant and retail industries for both indoor and outdoor environments. Ottonomy recently made announcements in partnership with CVG Airport and Presto launching autonomous delivery robots in North America.

“We are excited to unveil Ottobots at our first CES,” says Ritukar Vijay, CEO of Ottonomy. “The pandemic has provided Ottobots a catalyst enabling a series of partnerships that allowed us to launch fully autonomous delivery for indoor deliveries, kerbside deliveries and last-mile deliveries.”

Ottobot is said to be the world’s first fully autonomous delivery robot at an airport, delivering retail and food items at CVG Airport in Cincinnati. The company has also partnered with Los Angeles-based Crave, for last-kilometre food delivery for its restaurant customers.

In December, Presto, a provider of restaurant automation technologies, announced that its partner restaurant guests will be able to order using Presto’s technology and have the food delivered via Ottonomy’s robots. Currently, the technology is being evaluated for multiple use cases by one of the world’s largest retailers, says the company.

Ottobot pilots started running during the pandemic in 2020. The initial robot deliveries gathered additional research to develop the programme and user experience further as roll outs continued across the USA over the year.

The Ottobots create a digital map of the serviceable area and localise within that map. Each robot’s live location gets updated on the map while they are navigating autonomously to deliver the orders. Proprietary contextual mobility navigation software enables Ottobot to navigate through crowded and unpredictable environments.

To support its effort to roll out Ottobots across North America over the next 18 months, Ottonomy has formed a partnership with ARO, a specialist in robotic management, operations and support. ARO will support Ottonomy during its rollout, including implementation, daily operations, robotic fleet management and complete robot lifecycle management. Ottonomy is also an addition to Newlab at Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, where it will be running additional pilots.

Ottonomy is a deep tech start-up, providing contactless deliveries using fully autonomous robots. Its primary focus is on helping retailers and restaurants automate indoor and outdoor contactless deliveries. The company is backed by Connetic Ventures.