Advanced Navigation builds AI-powered navigation and autonomous systems for land, air, sea and space, including inertial and acoustic navigation, robotics and MEMS and fibre-optic gyroscope sensors.
Advanced Navigation develops AI-powered navigation and autonomous systems for land, air, sea and space, with a focus on software-enhanced hardware that performs where GPS is unreliable or unavailable. Founded in 2012 by Chris Shaw and Xavier Orr and rooted in research from the University of Sydney, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a presence across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. It raised a Series C round of US$110 million.
The product line spans inertial navigation systems, acoustic navigation solutions, robotics, and advanced sensors built on MEMS and fibre-optic gyroscope technology. Technical work extends into quantum sensing, photonics and AI neural networks. The company serves customers including NASA, Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla and Apple, and operates in the defence, mining, marine, aerospace and space sectors.
Advanced Navigation carries out vertically integrated manufacturing in Australia, a structure it describes as supporting quality control and delivery speed. Its research agenda centres on autonomy and on the sensing technologies underpinning it.
