Embraer adds new partnerships to Project EASy, which focuses on breakthrough technologies for autonomous systems

Embraer has announced a broad set of new tech­no­log­i­cal part­ner­ships with glob­al com­pa­nies focused on break­through tech­nolo­gies for autonomous sys­tems.

These agree­ments are part of the Embraer Autonomous Sys­tem project, Project EASy, which uses agile exper­i­men­ta­tion process­es for devel­op­ing solu­tions that will enable the autonomous avi­a­tion of the future.

US-based Near Earth Auton­o­my, Iris Automa­tion, and Ansys, as well as Switzerland’s Daedalean and Brazilian’s Motora.ai, are work­ing with Embraer to accel­er­ate the cre­ation of inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies and trans­form tomorrow’s air mobil­i­ty. 

The com­pa­nies will work togeth­er in an open inno­va­tion approach to devel­op and eval­u­ate sev­er­al new autonomous flight tech­nolo­gies, both in sim­u­la­tion and real flight con­di­tions.

This joint work will allow Embraer to devel­op inno­v­a­tive new prod­ucts in line with the company’s con­tin­u­ous search for an effi­cient and sus­tain­able future, such as the eVTOL air­craft devel­oped by Eve, Embraer’s Urban Air Mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny.

“Giv­en Embraer’s lead­er­ship, this part­ner­ship is impor­tant in mak­ing autonomous flight more ubiq­ui­tous and safe for every­one,” said Jon Damush, CEO of Iris Automa­tion

“Project EASy brings togeth­er many of the most inno­v­a­tive play­ers across avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies, bring­ing these devel­op­ments to the glob­al stage and pro­vid­ing an impor­tant forum for greater col­lab­o­ra­tion and adop­tion.”

In Decem­ber 2021, Ebraer’s Eve Air Mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny entered into a defin­i­tive busi­ness com­bi­na­tion agree­ment with Zan­ite Acqui­si­tion Corp, which will see the new com­pa­ny list­ed on the New York Stock Exchange under the tick­er sym­bols ‘EVEX’ and ‘EVEXW’.

The deal, which is expect­ed to close in Q2 2022, val­ues Eve at an implied $2.4 bil­lion and will give the com­pa­ny approx­i­mate­ly $512 mil­lion in cash, result­ing in a total pro for­ma equi­ty val­ue of about $2.9 bil­lion. 

Eve is led by co-CEOs Jer­ry DeMuro, who served as CEO of BAE Sys­tems, and Andre Stein, who has led Eve since its incep­tion and served in lead­er­ship roles with Embraer for more than two decades.

“We have been work­ing intense­ly to co-cre­ate the avi­a­tion of the future in a broad­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with key tech­no­log­i­cal part­ners,” said Mau­rilio Albanese Novaes Junior, Embraer Head of Research & Tech­nol­o­gy. 

“We are glad to now have Near Earth Auton­o­my, Iris Automa­tion and Daedalean con­tribut­ing with their unique knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in autonomous flight, as well as Ansys with its physics-based sen­sor sim­u­la­tion and exper­tise, along with Motora.ai which brings agile and flex­i­ble soft­ware inte­gra­tion to add val­ue to our devel­op­ment project.”

Last week, Eve Air Mobil­i­ty com­plet­ed the Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (CONOPS) for air­space inte­gra­tion of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty in the UK, a case study look­ing at trans­port­ing pas­sen­gers between Heathrow Air­port and Lon­don City Air­port.

Led by Eve, the UK Air Mobil­i­ty Con­sor­tium con­sists of NATS, Heathrow Air­port, Lon­don City Air­port, Sky­ports, Ate­ch, Volo­copter, and Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, in part­ner­ship with the UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty (CAA) Inno­va­tion Hub through its Reg­u­la­to­ry Sand­box.