Advanced Navigation company profile
Advanced Navigation develops inertial navigation, acoustic navigation and autonomous positioning systems for land, air, sea, subsea and space applications. Its products help drones, vehicles, robots and underwater systems estimate position and orientation where GPS is unreliable.
Facts
- Segment: Localization
- Country: Australia
- Founded: 2012
- Website: https://www.advancednavigation.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Operations / Deployments
- Team
- Supply chain relationships
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Sources
Summary
Advanced Navigation develops inertial navigation, acoustic navigation and autonomous positioning systems for land, air, sea, subsea and space applications. Its products help drones, vehicles, robots and underwater systems estimate position and orientation where GPS is unreliable.
Market context
Its inertial, acoustic and sensor-fusion products sit in the enabling layer for autonomous systems that need reliable localization beyond standard GNSS coverage. Advanced Navigation supplies robotics-adjacent hardware rather than complete robot platforms.
- Capability: Positioning and navigation systems for robotic and autonomous platforms Inertial navigation for field, marine, subsea, and mobile systems Acoustic navigation for subsea robotic operations Localization infras…
- Strategic position: Upstream localization supplier to robotics and autonomous systems Infrastructure layer for robots operating where external positioning is unreliable Part of the navigation dependency stack behind fie…
Facts
- Website: https://www.advancednavigation.com
- HQ: Sydney, Australia
- Founded: 2012
- Segment: Localization
- Known funding rounds: 3
Funding
- 2026-03-19 - Series C - $110M - Advanced Navigation raises US$110 million Series C - source: advancednavigation.com
- 2023-06-28 - Grant - $3M - Advanced Navigation receives Australian Space Agency lunar exploration grant - source: advancednavigation.com
- 2023-04-15 - $20M - Advanced Navigation Secures $20 Million to Enhance Robotics and Autonomous Systems - source: techcrunch.com
Investors
- Airtree Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Australian Space Agency - Lead - Government / Public - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-06-28
Navigation and positioning supplier for autonomous systems
Advanced Navigation supplies inertial, acoustic and subsea navigation systems used across autonomous vehicles, drones, marine robotics, mining and defence.
- Target environment: Sea, land, air, space, underground mining, subsea operations, defence platforms and autonomous vehicle programs.
- Deployment model: Navigation hardware, sensors and software supplied to OEMs, operators and autonomy programs.
- Customer context: Autonomous system builders, UAV programs, marine operators, defence customers, mining companies and robotics integrators.
- Workflow context: Positioning, inertial navigation, GNSS-aided navigation, acoustic navigation, subsea vehicle guidance and GPS-denied operation.
- Commercial maturity: Commercially mature navigation supplier serving multiple autonomy markets through product families and industry-specific solutions.
- Market position: Navigation infrastructure company supplying positioning and guidance systems for robots and autonomous platforms.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on accuracy, robustness in GNSS-denied environments, integration burden, certification, cost and supply reliability.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes inertial navigation suppliers, acoustic positioning systems, robot localization and autonomy sensor infrastructure.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-03-19 - Funding - Advanced Navigation raises US$110 million Series C - Series C led by Airtree Ventures, with participation from KKR and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation
- 2025-09-08 - Org Change - Advanced Navigation expands across the US and Europe for PNT production - Advanced Navigation announced plans to establish PNT Centers of Excellence across the United States and Europe, beginni…
- 2025-09-03 - Product Launch - Advanced Navigation launches Boreas 50 Series for GPS-denied environments - Advanced Navigation launched the Boreas 50 Series, a compact north-seeking fibre-optic gyroscope inertial navigat…
- 2025-03-04 - Partnership - Advanced Navigation signs MBDA collaboration on resilient navigation technology - Advanced Navigation signed an MoU with MBDA to co-develop a resilient navigation system integrating MBDA's NIL…
- 2024-06-11 - Partnership - PAL Robotics integrates Advanced Navigation Orientus into humanoid robots - AI applications for boosting interactions between humans and robots Author PAL Robotics Category EU Projects Date Ju…
- 2024-05-15 - Partnership - PAL Robotics Integrates Orientus Sensors into TALOS and Kangaroo Robots - PAL Robotics incorporated Advanced Navigation's Orientus sensors into their TALOS and Kangaroo humanoid robots.
- 2023-09-26 - Facility Opening - Advanced Navigation opens high-tech robotics manufacturing facility - Advanced Navigation opened a new robotics manufacturing facility at UTS Tech Lab in Australia
- 2023-06-28 - Funding - Advanced Navigation receives Australian Space Agency lunar exploration grant - Advanced Navigation received a Moon to Mars Initiative grant from the Australian Space Agency
- 2023-04-15 - Funding - Advanced Navigation Secures $20 Million to Enhance Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Funding aims to support the development of cutting-edge navigation solutions for robotics
Operations / Deployments
- 2025-09-08 - Org Change - Advanced Navigation expands across the US and Europe for PNT production - Advanced Navigation announced plans to establish PNT Centers of Excellence across the United States and Europe, beginni…
Team
- Chris Shaw - Co-Founder and CEO
- Xavier Orr - Co-Founder - Adds technical founder context for Advanced Navigation's autonomous navigation, AI-based inertial systems and robotics infrastructure.
- Pawel Michalak - Chief Technology Officer
Supply chain relationships
- facility host - Advanced Navigation opened a robotics manufacturing facility at UTS Tech Lab for autonomy and navigation systems.
- PAL Robotics - Orientus IMU/AHRS - Advanced Navigation Orientus IMU/AHRS supports PAL Robotics TALOS and Kangaroo balance, uneven-terrain walking and jumping work.
- Ultra Hydrographic - Spatial FOG Dual INS - Advanced Navigation Spatial FOG Dual INS was integrated into Ultrabeam Hydrographic Axolotl for amphibious hydrographic survey work.
- MooVita - Certus Evo INS - MooVita selected Advanced Navigation Certus Evo INS for precise positioning in autonomous-bus pilots where GNSS is unreliable.
- Robotic Systems - Advanced Navigation inertial navigation products - Robotic Systems used Advanced Navigation products and engineering support to accelerate custom robotic-system development.
- BESC - Certus INS - Advanced Navigation supplies Certus INS technology used by BESC for mining fleet angle monitoring.
- Tamboritha - Boreas A70 INS - Advanced Navigation supplies Boreas A70 inertial navigation technology integrated into a Tamboritha ROV.
- Space Machines Company - Boreas X90 INS - Advanced Navigation supplies Boreas X90 inertial navigation technology used on Space Machines Company Optimus orbital service vehicle.
Context tags
- Resilient positioning and navigation - Workflow - Advanced Navigation provides GNSS-denied and resilient navigation solutions.
- Positioning navigation supplier - Stack Layer - Advanced Navigation supplies positioning and navigation systems for autonomous machines.
- Inertial GNSS sensor fusion - Capability - Advanced Navigation fuses inertial, GNSS and acoustic sensor data.
- Inertial navigation supplier - Peer Group - Advanced Navigation supplies INS, GNSS and acoustic navigation for autonomous systems.
- Inertial navigation - Capability - Advanced Navigation supplies inertial navigation systems for autonomous platforms.
- Robot localization - Capability - Advanced Navigation is tracked for positioning and navigation systems used in autonomy.
- GNSS/INS - Stack Layer - Advanced Navigation supplies GNSS/INS and navigation systems.
- High-precision position feedback - Capability - Advanced Navigation provides high-precision position and orientation feedback.
- Underwater navigation - Capability - Advanced Navigation also supplies underwater navigation systems.
- Industrial edge deployments - Customer Environment - Advanced Navigation systems are deployed in industrial edge environments.
- Robot compute supply chain - Customer Environment - Advanced Navigation serves the robot compute and navigation supply chain.
- Defence robotics operators - Customer Environment - Advanced Navigation supplies defence positioning and navigation systems.
Customers and deployments
- Robotics Manufacturing Facility Count - 1 robotics manufacturing facility - 2023-09-26 - UTS Tech Lab robotics manufacturing facility - autonomy and navigation system manufacturing - Advanced Navigation opened a robotic…
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