EASYMILE

Their core work

EasyMile is a French SME based in Toulouse that develops autonomous vehicle technology for road transport and logistics. They build software and systems for driverless shuttle operations, fleet management, and automated logistics vehicles. Their work spans from urban shared mobility (autonomous public transport shuttles) to all-weather autonomous freight operations, with a strong focus on real-world demonstrations and pilot deployments across European cities.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

EasyMile's early H2020 involvement (2015-2018) included a peripheral role in robotics (FLOBOT, floor-washing robots) alongside their core autonomous transport work in AINARA. From 2020 onward, their focus sharpened dramatically toward autonomous mobility and logistics at scale — shared transport models (SHOW), AI-driven planning (AIPlan4EU), and all-weather autonomous freight (AWARD). The evolution shows a clear trajectory from developing base autonomous driving technology to deploying complete autonomous transport ecosystems with fleet management, scheduling intelligence, and real-world operational resilience.

EasyMile is moving from proving autonomous vehicle technology works toward making it operationally reliable in all conditions — expect their next projects to focus on commercial-scale autonomous logistics and urban transport services.

How they like to work

EasyMile balances leadership and partnership roles — they coordinated 2 of their 5 projects (AINARA, AWARD) while participating in 3 others, showing they can both drive a consortium agenda and contribute specialized expertise. With 149 unique partners across 18 countries, they operate within large demonstration-oriented consortia typical of transport innovation actions. Their willingness to join as both coordinator and partner makes them a flexible collaborator, though their strength clearly lies in bringing autonomous vehicle technology to multi-partner demonstration projects.

EasyMile has built a broad European network of 149 unique partners across 18 countries, reflecting the large-scale transport demonstration projects they participate in. This wide reach makes them well-connected across the European autonomous mobility ecosystem.

What sets them apart

EasyMile is one of a small number of European SMEs that actually builds and deploys autonomous vehicles — not just researches them. Their combination of autonomous driving software, fleet management systems, and extensive pilot deployment experience across multiple EU projects gives them rare end-to-end capability. For consortium builders, they bring both the technology and the operational track record of running autonomous vehicles in real cities and logistics corridors.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AWARD
  Their largest project (EUR 3.75M as coordinator), focused on all-weather autonomous logistics — a commercially critical challenge for the freight industry.
• SHOW
  Major EU demonstration project for shared autonomous mobility across multiple cities, positioning EasyMile at the center of Europe's urban transport transformation.
• AIPlan4EU
  Signals EasyMile's expansion into AI planning intelligence, adding software brains to their autonomous vehicle hardware expertise.