Optimus Ride

Acquired by Magna
Developing sustainable, electric self-driving systems for urban mobility.

Sector

Technology

Category

Frontier

Location

Boston, MA

Initial Investment

2017
Developing sustainable, electric self-driving systems for urban mobility.

The unique makeup of the Optimus Ride team includes over 30 years of shared experience on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, mobility-on-demand and other transportation systems. The team also has a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience spanning manufacturing robots, medical robots, shared vehicle fleet management and urban design. Building on this significant knowledge, the company will continue to leverage the latest advances in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision and machine learning to ultimately deploy a new form of transportation system that enables safe, sustainable and equitable mobility access. This company was acquired by Magna in 2022.