10 million hours and counting: How the most experienced AMR solution elevates facilities worldwide

After sixteen years of innovation, OTTO by Rockwell Automation’s autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solution has achieved over ten million production hours—the collective number of hours OTTO AMRs have driven in production environments around the world. Since its founding, OTTO’s award-winning software has become an expert in productively managing over 100 AMRs in a single fleet, delivering over 850,000 payloads monthly.

With over ten million hours moving payloads around mission-critical, dynamic manufacturing facilities, OTTO has become the most experienced material handler in the industry. Equivalent to over 4,800 years of work experience—based on eight-hour workdays—OTTO dedicates its growing expertise to improving safety, increasing efficiency, and empowering employees in hundreds of facilities around the world.

Image 1: Production hours have grown exponentially over the past six years, increasing 47% between 2024 and 2025 alone.

Elevating manufacturing facilities worldwide

Since the first OTTO AMR—an OTTO 1500—began driving in manufacturing facilities, the software has been continuously learning, becoming smarter with each hour of production experience.

Over the last ten million hours, OTTO’s software has absorbed all of these learnings and transferred that knowledge to every deployment, elevating material handling for manufacturers worldwide. OTTO gathers these insights from production environments to improve the software, pushing these improvements out in semi-annual software updates.

Some of OTTO’s first AMRs deployed at a manufacturing facility are still operating today. GE Healthcare, and many of our other long-standing and newer customers, are providing the production environment for OTTO to gain experience, which over the years has helped manufacturers achieve operational goals, including:

• A 6x throughput increase at a CPG manufacturing facility moving plastic rigid containers
• 40% smaller repair cells leading to a 66% increase in productive floor space at a manufacturing facility moving medical equipment
• An estimated $1.3 million saved within one year of implementation at an aerospace facility
• A 97% reduction in cycle times, from 15 minutes to just 30 seconds at an industrial facility moving stacks of paper

Image 1: One of the original OTTO 1500 AMRs at a GE Aerospace facility. At the time, the robot’s colorway was white.

When our customers are dedicated to continuous improvement in their facilities, OTTO is able to continuously improve our software as well. This not only elevates material handling at our customer facilities, but in the industry as a whole. Manufacturing has been transformed by AMRs and together with our customers, we will continue to shape the industry and grow alongside it.

AMR software has elevated manufacturing facilities to achieve next-level efficiency, but long-term success isn’t just about solving today’s challenges—it’s about choosing a partner that’s built to scale with your operations and evolve with your needs. Future-proofing your AMR deployment means selecting intelligent fleet management software that supports seamless integration, ongoing innovation, and enterprise-level scalability. Learn which software capabilities are essential for long-term success in the webinar, “Future-proof your AMR deployment with the right software.”