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President/CEO: Xavier Orr, Chris Shaw www.advancednavigation.com

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Advanced Navigation develops AI navigation systems and Advanced Navigation will be among one of the ? rst Austra- robotic technologies for air, land, sea and space applications, lian companies to reach the Moon through the development leveraging capabilities in AI neural networks and deep learn- of space-quali? ed autonomous navigation systems. The sys- ing algorithms. Made possible with extensive research, testing tems will support NASA’s endeavor to explore the Moon and and automated manufacturing, the company develops trans- beyond to Mars by enabling safe and reliable autonomous formative technologies from inertial and sonar navigation to landing and navigation on the lunar surface. Most recently, photonic and quantum sensing. Advanced Navigation’s mis- Advanced Navigation was awarded a £2.6 million grant by sion is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. the Australian Space Agency to expedite the production of

Over the last 12 months, Advanced Navigation has consis- these systems, cementing its position as a catalyst for autono- tently increased customer stickiness and delivered break- mous space exploration and transportation.

throughs. In late 2022, Advanced Navigation completed an There are needs to reduce the cost, risks and complexity as- £55 million Series B funding round. The funding is being sociated with subsea exploration. Advanced Navigation was used to expand global sales and marketing, and accelerate instrumental in providing solutions that enabled the drone

R&D programs focused on transformative robotic, naviga- revolution to come to fruition. Coupled with 10 years of tion, photonic and quantum sensing solutions. Leveraging the R&D in sonar technology, we saw the parallels between the raise, Advanced Navigation also opened Australia’s largest underwater robotics market and where the aerial drone mar- subsea robotics facility in 2023 to accelerate production of its ket was 15 years ago. The company applied this knowledge underwater technologies. This includes its fully autonomous to sonar positioning and navigation to develop an underwa- submersible robot, Hydrus. ter robot that miniaturized multiple technologies to enable a 8 September/October 2023

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