Macnica (hereinafter referred to as Macnica, head office location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kiyoshi Nakashima), which imports, sells, and develops semiconductors and network equipment, has recently announced that Autonomoustuff (hereinafter referred to as AS, head office) in the United States We are pleased to announce that we have entered into a distribution agreement in Japan with Morton, Illinois, USA (CEO: Bobby Hambrick) and will begin selling demonstration vehicles equipped with the company's autonomous driving platform.

AS's autonomous driving demonstration vehicle is equipped with the hardware (GPU/FPGA/manycore, LiDAR, RADAR, camera) and software (OS/middleware/algorithms) necessary for autonomous driving, and can be customized according to the customer's request. It is possible to provide demonstration vehicles customized with various configurations. In addition to demonstration vehicles, we also have all the components necessary for autonomous driving, such as sensor modules, autonomous driving ECUs, and software, so we can provide them according to the customer's situation. Already, we have many achievements in supplying to major service providers, major semiconductor suppliers, software vendors, etc. globally.

With this agreement, Macnica will utilize the know-how it has cultivated over many years as a technology trading company to help domestic automobile manufacturers and automobile-related parts manufacturers solve the problems of Japanese customers through the sale of AS's autonomous driving demonstration vehicles. By providing support, we will contribute to business expansion. We will also provide it to universities and research institutes researching and developing AI algorithms for autonomous driving as well as businesses entering the new mobility market, such as robot taxis and delivery robots.

Furthermore, in the future, various companies such as telecommunications, construction and construction machinery, public finance, insurance, and leasing, as well as national and public institutions, local governments, etc. will be involved in demonstration experiments of new service models centered on autonomous driving technology. We will propose one-stop solutions for autonomous driving, such as providing demonstration vehicles such as AS, support for embedded development of various hardware and software, data acquisition, analysis services, etc.

[Main features of Autnomoustuff]

• It is possible to provide autonomous driving demonstration vehicles that combine various HW and SW such as nVIDIA's autonomous driving platform, FPGA and many-core CPU.
• Multiple types of vehicle available
• Various sensor configurations can be customized (separate consultation)
• Various other customizations are possible according to the customer's request (separate consultation)

Click here for product details.
https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/maas/

*Company names and product names mentioned in the text are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.