Technology incubator · Cincinnati, Ohio
Dry Water Inc. is a technology incubator in Cincinnati. We take a new idea from first prototype to a product in customers’ hands, with the engineering, design and operations to get it there. Our current project is NoTip, robot food delivery with nothing to tip.
NoTip in the news
Current project
Live · public beta
Robot food delivery with one flat fee and nothing to tip. A NoTip driver brings each order into the neighborhood, and Noah, our delivery robot, finishes the trip to the door. The price you see is the price.
Press
Coverage of NoTip since its public beta opened in Mason, Ohio on June 17, 2026.
Podcasts
Steve Burns, the founder of NoTip, on robot delivery, physical AI and building NoTip.
Investors
If you believe robots will carry the last mile, we want to build it with you.
A robot finishes every delivery, so there’s no tip and no driver cost padded into the order: menu price and one flat $6 for delivery.
$44.46 vs $30.29: the same Crumbl 6‑Pack through a delivery app and through NoTip. See the receipt
Public beta since June 17, 2026, in the Cincinnati area. Ordering is open in the NoTip app on iOS and Android and on the web.
Our patent application covers two-stage car-and-robot delivery: a car for distance, robots for the doors, several at once.
Fans nominate their towns and vote for the restaurants they miss, and every vote tells us where Noah should roll next.
The model, the press and a direct line to the people building it.
Technology
Robots alone are too slow over distance. Drivers alone cost too much. NoTip pairs them: a car covers the distance fast, and robots cover the doors, several at once, with one person running the team. Every hand-off is logged with a time.
Our delivery robot, designed in-house. He finishes every NoTip delivery at the door.
A car for distance, robots for the doors. Our patent application for the model is filed.
Software that groups orders into trips, routes the car through its stops and sends each robot on its leg.
Ordering on iPhone, Android and the web, a dispatch app for drivers and an operations console for our team.
NoTip texts only people who ask for it: order messages for customers who tick "Text me about this order" at checkout, one-time verification codes, and run alerts for drivers who opt in. Reply STOP to any text to stop, or HELP for help.
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