Ottonomy builds Ottumn.AI platform to orchestrate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure
Ottobot completes an autonomous curbside parcel delivery orchestrated by Ottumn.AI. Source: Ottonomy
At the India AI Summit today, Ottonomy.IO launched its new Ottumn.AI orchestration platform for physical AI in healthcare, manufacturing, and local e-commerce. The company built the platform on NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and with support from the NVIDIA Inception program.
Ottumn.AI is a cloud-based platform for safe and scalable robotics, according to Ottonomy. It connects and integrates drones, cleaning robots, and patrolling robots with infrastructure such as smart mailboxes and building systems.
“With Ottumn.AI, we’re moving from isolated automation to orchestrated autonomy—the first asynchronous deliveries framework connecting robots, drones, Arrive Points, elevators, and access doors in live environments like hospitals, sidewalks or campuses,” stated Ritukar Vijay, founder and CEO of Ottonomy. “Built using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and enabled by partnerships with Arrive AI and Skye Air Mobility, Ottumn.AI delivers the intelligence, safety, and scale required to navigate complex physical environments.”
Ottumn.AI combines AI with logic for perception, cognition
Ottumn.AI’s “neurosymbolic” approach combines AI in the form of vision‑language models with symbolic logic. This ensures that robots can see and understand their environments while strictly following safety and operational regulations, explained Ottonomy.IO.
The platform features a multi‑layer architecture that unifies edge intelligence, infrastructure control, and cloud orchestration:
- Neurosymbolic AI and interoperability: Ottonomy said its system uses hybrid neural networks for perception plus symbolic reasoning for planning. The orchestration complies with the VDA 5050 standard for vendor‑agnostic automated guided vehicle (AGV) interoperability.
- Edge‑to‑cloud orchestration: NVIDIA Jetson at the edge provides for sub‑30 ms latency decisions, with cloud GPUs for digital twins, simulation, and V2X (vehicle-to-anything) integration.
- Asynchronous delivery ecosystem: Unattended pickup and drop‑off via smart receptacles and multi‑modal logistics combines ground robots and drones for “true last‑inch delivery,” asserted Ottonomy.
- Cloud teleoperation and orchestration: Ottumn.AI offers scalable, safe autonomy with remote assistance, fleet coordination, and continuous performance optimization.
“Together, these layers deliver an adaptive, explainable, and infrastructure‑aware robotic ecosystem ready for industrial and urban automation,” said Ottonomy.
Ottumn.AI uses NVIDIA Isaac Sim, an open robotics simulation framework, to create digital twins for testing. It also uses NVIDIA Jetson for on‑device computing, and NVIDIA accelerated computing to manage fleets globally.
In addition, Ottonomy plans to use NVIDIA Cosmos open world foundation models and NVIDIA Nemotron family of open models with open weights, training data, and recipes for future development.
The fleet overview dashboard of Ottumn.AI, which orchestrates robots, drones, and smart infrastructure in real time. Source: Ottonomy
Strategic partners help with integration
Modular robots and drones can use Ottumn.AI for asynchronous deliveries, in which goods are moved, picked up, and dropped off without human involvement at the point of exchange, explained Ottonomy. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company is working with partners to integrate robots with other systems.
Ottonomy has partnered with Arrive AI to integrate Arrive Points, which are smart, secure receptacles that act as a universal exchange point. Robots can drop items into the Arrive Point, and staffers retrieve them later. The Arrive Points include climate control for medicine and UV sterilization for hygiene.
In hospitals, nurses can place specimens in the box and walk away; the system handles the rest, said Ottonomy.
The company has also partnered with Skye Air Mobility, a leading drone-delivery network in India. Ottumn.AI coordinates handoffs between ground robots and drones, ensuring quick delivery windows in congested cities. The partners said they can significantly reduce carbon emissions in comparison with traditional courier vans.
Ottumn.AI connects drones, ground robots, and Arrive AI smart lockers. Source: Ottonomy
Ottonomy addresses a global need
Manufacturers and logistics providers are facing labor shortages and demands for efficiency, noted Ottonomy.IO. The company claimed that Ottumn.AI solves the last‑mile delivery gap by connecting isolated machines into a single, efficient network.
Thanks to its compliance with the German VDA 5050 standard, Ottumn.AI is built to “play well with others” and can manage mixed AGV fleets, said Ottonomy. It can orchestrate Ottobots, third‑party cleaning robots, and drones, preventing vendor lock‑in and making scaling easier for businesses.
Ottonomy plans to demonstrate Ottumn.AI at the India AI Summit/India AI Impact Summit 2026 in a multi‑modal mission involving robots, drones, and building integration.
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