Based in Boston, MA, Optimus Ride was an MIT spinoff company that combined over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, and mobility-on-demand systems. Its team had decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience in manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management. The company developed self-driving technology systems that enabled efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility networks for geofenced environments, using advances in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision, and machine learning. Its technology was used by customers for transportation from commercial vessel operations to transit options. However, it has now gone out of business.