HD Hyundai Abicus Participates in World's Largest Boat Show... Demonstrates Leadership in Autonomous Navigation

NewBoat Unveils Phase 2 Autonomous Leisure Boat Solution in Fort Lauderdale, USA

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] Avikus, a ship autonomous navigation specialist company under HD Hyundai, demonstrated its advanced technology in the field of ship autonomous navigation by participating in the world's largest boat show, 'Fort Lauderdale.'

Avikus unveiled its Level 2 autonomous navigation solution for leisure boats, 'NewBoat,' for the first time at the boat show held in Florida, USA, from the 26th (local time) to the 30th, lasting five days.

NewBoat is a compound word of 'Neuron,' meaning nerve cell, and 'Boat.' It signifies that Avikus's AI autonomous navigation solution installed on the vessel will play a central role in autonomously perceiving, judging, and controlling in various maritime environments like human nerve cells.

On the opening day of the event, the 26th, Avikus signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for technological cooperation to commercialize autonomous navigation boats with 'Raymarine,' a global top-tier boat electronics company.

Through this agreement, Avikus plans to begin joint research and development to install autonomous navigation solutions on multifunction displays for boats manufactured by Raymarine.

Additionally, during the event, Avikus invited global top-tier boat companies such as Brunswick and Garmin to a marina near the exhibition hall to hold autonomous navigation demonstrations.

Through this demonstration, Avikus plans to showcase to industry stakeholders the advanced leisure boat autonomous navigation solutions, including NewBoat's representative functions such as autonomous sailing and autonomous docking and undocking.

At the venue, a hands-on booth will be set up where hardware equipment used for implementing autonomous navigation solutions, such as computers and cameras, as well as the vessel's autonomous sailing and autonomous docking and undocking, can be intuitively experienced. This will expand contact points not only with industry stakeholders but also with general boat customers (B2C) visiting the event.

Im Do-hyung, CEO of Avikus, said, "We plan to actively promote sales activities to achieve our 200 billion KRW sales target by 2026, as well as to showcase Avikus's technological capabilities to the world at this boat show." He added, "Starting next year, we will fully launch the commercialization of autonomous navigation solutions for leisure boats, focusing on the US and Europe."

Meanwhile, Avikus succeeded in the world's first ocean crossing of a large vessel using autonomous navigation technology in June. Based on this, it secured orders for autonomous navigation solutions for large vessels from two domestic shipping companies, SK Shipping and Janggeum Shipping, becoming the world's first to commercialize Level 2 autonomous navigation solutions.

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