Overview
Advanced Navigation is an Australian company developing inertial navigation systems, AI-powered autonomy, and robotic sensing technologies for autonomous vehicles, Maritime, and defense applications.
Reality check
Hydrus micro-AUV (company-claimed)
Autonomous micro underwater vehicle with DVL, USBL, INS, acoustic and optical modems, collision avoidance.
Hydrus specs (company-claimed)
7.1 kg, 520 x 264 x 235 mm, 300 m depth, 4K60 video, 5,000-lumen lights.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Customers
Products
Type
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Current leadership (3)
- Xavier Orr CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Chris Shaw Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Pawel Michalak CTOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Advanced Navigation.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Advanced Navigation in third-party press
Mentioned on (5)
Registry pages whose text names Advanced Navigation.
Companies (2)
People (3)
Supplies to (1)
Sensors
- Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio)by Naio TechnologiesAdvanced Navigation GNSS Compass -- dual-antenna GNSS/INS providing RTK positioning (~1 degree heading accuracy) and built-in IMU; used across Naio TED and smaller Oz robot platforms for cold-start navigation and reliable heading on varying soil textures; integrated via Advanced Navigation ROS SDKsupplies
Outbound supply edges from this company. Each relationship appears here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Funding rounds (2)
- Series C2026-03-20
- Series B2022-11-01
Timeline
Every recorded move in Advanced Navigation’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-03-20Series C
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2022-11-01Series B
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
- Advanced Navigation -- Company website · https://www.advancednavigation.com/
- Advanced Navigation -- GNSS Compass case study with Naio Technologies TED robot · https://www.advancednavigation.com/autonomous-farming/gnss-compass-keeps-the-naio-technologies-ted-agricultural-robot-accurately-tending-vineyards/
- https://www.advancednavigation.com/robotics/micro-auv/hydrus/
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Advanced Navigation.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Advanced Navigation from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Voyant Successfully Demonstrates GNSS-denied Navigation for UK MoD
Voyant has successfully demonstrated its advanced navigation software to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), marking an important step in the development of resilient Position,…
Advanced Navigation expands U.S. manufacturing in Huntsville to supply navigation systems for operations without reliable GPS
Advanced Navigation America is expanding manufacturing in Huntsville, Alabama, to supply navigation systems for defense and autonomous platforms operating without reliable GPS.
Advanced Navigation expands US manufacturing capacity to Alabama
Company said it is expanding manufacturing in Huntsville to build and deliver high-precision mining navigation technology.
Advanced Navigation secures $18.5 million Kongsberg order for Boreas systems on Polish Protector counter drone platforms
Advanced Navigation has secured an $18.5 million supply agreement with KONGSBERG to provide inertial navigation systems for its PROTECTOR counter-uncrewed aerial system platforms
Poland’s drone defenses get a way to work without GPS
Advanced Navigation, an Australian navigation technology company, has signed an $18.5 million deal to supply inertial navigation systems for Kongsberg’s PROTECTOR counter-drone…
Raymarine announce strategic five-year partnership with UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), the largest lifeboat service operating around the coast of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Channel Islands, has announced a…
Redwire Receives $21.5 Million Follow-On Order from Portfolio Acquisition Executive Robotic Autonomous Systems (PAE RAS) to Deliver Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation and Standard Systems
Jacksonville, Fla. (July 15, 2026) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, today announced it has received follow-on awards…
Advanced Navigation Secures US10M Series C to Catalyze the Next Era of Autonomous Systems
Advanced Navigation raised US10M in Series C funding led by Airtree Ventures, with Quadrant Private Equity and NRFC. The company has deployed 100,000+ systems worldwide and…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/advanced-navigation.md
- RSS feed: /companies/advanced-navigation/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9d378013-ff26-4aad-9aef-66b7a9aed958
- Revision history: /companies/advanced-navigation/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Advanced Navigation against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 25, 2026