Autonomous shuttles, documented

How this gallery is organised

The visual material here is organised around three themes: the vehicle itself as a designed object, the operating environments it was built for, and specific deployment contexts that illustrate how the platforms function in practice.

The photo archive at Galerie photo Induct contains additional historical visual material presented through its original French-language archive path.

Platform design

Both Navia and Cybergo were designed with a clear visual philosophy - compact, enclosed, distinctly non-automotive in their proportions and presence. Where a conventional shuttle bus looks like a scaled-down public transit vehicle, Navia reads more like a purpose-designed pod. The exterior is deliberately friendly without being cartoonish, and the absence of visible driver infrastructure changes the interior geometry in ways that standard bus design cannot accommodate.

The design communicates what the vehicle is before anyone reads a specification. That clarity matters in deployment contexts where passengers encounter the vehicle without prior training or briefing.

Operating environment documentation

Documentation photography from deployment sites typically shows the vehicle in its operating context - on a campus loop, at a terminal stop, navigating around pedestrians. This visual record is useful because it shows what the operating environment actually looks like at ground level, which is often very different from the site plans and aerial diagrams used in deployment proposals.

The contrast between a rendered visualisation of an autonomous shuttle route and a photograph of the same route during operation is instructive. The visual complexity of pedestrian environments at low speed is something that renders almost always understate.

Vehicle documentation archive

Product photography from the launch and demonstration period of both Navia and Cybergo covers the vehicle from multiple angles, including the sensor cluster on the roof of Navia, the boarding areas, and the passenger cabin interior. These images serve as documentation of a specific moment in autonomous vehicle design - before the category had consolidated around any particular visual language.