Ottonomy released the https://t.co/GMCJCHW4df physical AI orchestration platform, connecting robots, drones and smart infrastructure through NVIDIA. https://t.co/saw11ZC3Yd
The Arrive Point™ is crossing continents.
Our Director of Strategy, Kiran Paul, is on the ground in India 🇮🇳 expanding our network with Skye Air Mobility & Ottonomy IO.
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#ArriveAI#AutonomousDelivery
In Episode 6, we speak with Ritukar Vijay, Co-founder and CEO of Ottonomy. Ottonomy builds autonomous indoor-outdoor delivery robots for enterprises across healthcare, logistics, aerospace, and more.
Before founding Ottonomy, Ritukar spent 16 years in autonomy, leading BMW's L4 self-driving program at Aptiv and building everything from defense UGVs to warehousing robots, with 57+ patents to his name.
We discuss why robot ops is really customer ops and most teams get the framing wrong, how Ottonomy templatized infrastructure integrations like elevators and access doors to avoid the custom-engineering trap at every new site, and Ritukar's take that the industry overfits on the robot when the real scaling unlock is the orchestration layer that sits above it. Plus, why he thinks teleoperated robots will hit a wall at scale and full autonomy from day one is the only viable path for enterprise deployments.
Timestamps
(0:04) Introduction
(1:20) What Ottonomy Does
(2:53) Healthcare Use Cases
(5:37) What Feels Different About Robotics Today
(8:01) Educating Customers and the Buyer Process
(10:05) Deployment Blockers and Infrastructure Integration
(14:36) Shifting from Product Focus to Solution Focus
(19:07) Scaling Operations and Robot Ops
(23:14) Metrics and Tracking Performance
(25:55) Incident Lifecycle and Resolution
(27:39) Scaling the Human-to-Robot Ratio
(29:50) Indoor-Outdoor Differentiation and Building for the Future
(35:09) Advice for Founders and Closing
Got the chance to hang out with the @Ottonomy_IO team this past December in the Bay Area.
They’re building fully autonomous delivery robots powered by Contextual AI that handle real world challenges in hospitals, campuses, logistics and more. It’s very impressive tech solving actual problems.
Big thank you to the Ottonomy crew for the insights and hospitality! Looking forward to where you take this next!
Ottonomy’s robots are killing it! 🔥
Modular cabin, crab mode, and smart lockers for retail, food, airports, hospitality & curbside. Now with Contextual AI 2.0, they think on the go.
Shoutout to @RitukarVJ & the @Ottonomy_IO team! Show them some love 🤖
Backed by @CoreNestVC
Ottonomy tested the Smart Mailbox by Arrive AI at the Newlab office in Brooklyn, New York.
Ottonomy's robots are designed to address staffing shortages in retail and restaurant industries. These fully autonomous robots can deliver food, groceries, and packages in various environments, including curbside, last mile, and indoor settings.
Video source: @ottonomy_io
#robotics #technology #engineering #stem #innovation #robots #autonomous
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Check out @RitukarVJ's latest article: General Intelligence on the Edge with Ottonomy's Contextual AI 2.0 for robotics https://t.co/48rv2wAf16 via @LinkedIn
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬: While every VC I speak to laments over the commercialization of AMRs, I believe what they are missing out on is that now there exist more areas for AMRs to operate in.
Let’s meet our delivery robot startups:
@Ottonomy_IO via @RitukarVJ@ServeRobotics@nuro@StarshipRobots
Most of these began their journey inside college/uni campuses. Now with enough training and better lidars, cameras etc these can be found navigating the sidewalks of SF, NYC and even Estonia.
DPD has upscaled its work on autonomous deliveries with the launch of a new ‘Locker’ robot.
The parcel delivery company has become the first in the UK to deploy Ottonomy’s multi-compartment, fully autonomous Ottobot robot....
#Autonomousdeliveries#DPD
https://t.co/QQ5GOCNjZo
Team DPD UK is the first parcel delivery company in the United Kingdom to deploy @Ottonomy_IO's multi-compartment, fully autonomous ‘Locker’ robot, Ottobot.
Get the details in our #pressrelease 🤖⬇️
https://t.co/pQ8KlGOZD8