Optimus Ride

Optimus Ride is a MIT spinoff company based in Cambridge, MA that develops self-driving technologies.

Optimus Ride is an MIT spinoff company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that develops self‑driving technologies to enable safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions. Optimus is designing a fully autonomous (level 4) system for electric vehicle fleets. Optimus combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar), and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The company has a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.