Navya, French company of electric automated guided vehicles


Navya has developed driverless vehicles that can move safely without any special infrastructure and without human intervention.

Navya has been designed as a complement to traditional transportation, whether individual or collectively, the "first and last mile".
Navya is the perfect companion environments requiring simple mobility, secure and environmentally friendly.


Navya’s flagship vehicle, the Arma, was in development for 10 years before it was launched in October 2015. The Arma is completely electric and autonomous and can carry up to 15 passengers and drive up to 45 km/hour (28 miles per hour). The company already has vehicles on the road in Lyon in a public transportation project, along with other unnamed strategic agreements, and it also has plans to manufacture and roll them out also in the Middle East in partnership with Group8.
Meeting demand from municipal organizations, and companies that have closed but large campuses that require transportation to move from point A to B, the aim is to have 30 vehicles in use by the end of this year, the company said.
While that will give Navya a jump on the market for autonomous shuttle buses, it is not the only one putting its pedal to the metal to meet demand.
This past summer, IBM showed off its first Watson-powered foray into self-driving cars, which came in the form of Olli, a minibus from Local Motors. Mercedes-Benz also recently reached a milestone when its autonomous bus completed a 12-mile journey. Even Yandex, the Russian search giant that has more recently been repositioning itself as a mobile and machine learning company, is building a shuttle bus.

Competition, it seems, was part of the reason for seeking investment, particularly from strategic partners that could help Navya grow.
“To secure sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive context, we have chosen a partnership strategy that allows us, on the one hand, to optimize costs with the offers of one of the largest automotive suppliers to stay competitive, and on the other hand to ensure most effectively the international deployment of our autonomous mobility solution, the Navya Arma,” said Christophe Sapet, the startup’s chairman, in a statement.
“Achieving faster critical volumes will reduce investments from cities and companies who wish to equip themselves with intelligent and autonomous mobility solutions and thus accelerate the growth of our company.”
Among the investors in this latest round, Navya has some companies with some existing track record in the self-driving space.

Some link:


http://www.futura-sciences.com/plane...service-63767/


http://navya.tech


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...-passengers-i/


https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navya


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