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eSOL Co., Ltd. and Cybertrust Co., Ltd. have signed a basic agreement to collaborate with the aim of providing an SDx development platform*1 and engineering services capable of mission-critical processing for the industrial, mobility, and robotics fields in the era of physical AI that autonomously controls robots and machines.
In this collaboration, both companies, as software vendors, will leverage their long-standing expertise in platform technologies such as embedded operating systems, real-time control, and middleware, as well as security. By combining a secure and stable OS infrastructure with custom development engineering services, they will jointly develop a full-stack SDx development platform originating in Japan that covers everything from the device layer to the application layer, security, and maintenance, and offer it as a product service. This will reduce the burden on product development companies to comply with international security standards such as the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)*2 and the IEC 62443*3 series, allowing them to focus on the implementation and value creation of physical AI.
In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing need for “physical AI,” which utilizes AI in real-time in real-world spaces, particularly in industrial equipment, mobility, and robotics. Physical AI requires “physical intelligent systems” that perform mission-critical and complex processing, including “advanced real-time control processing and power-saving control” and “advanced information processing, secure high-speed communication, and edge AI processing.” This implementation cannot be achieved with a single OS alone; it has become essential to safely and securely integrate and execute real-time control (real-time OS) and Linux-based AI and network functions in a heterogeneous environment where different processors coexist on a single SoC.
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This collaboration will combine the strengths and expertise of both companies: eSOL’s scalable real-time OS “eMCOS®,” which forms the core of its next-generation SDx development platform, offering advanced real-time capabilities, multi-kernel architecture, and functional safety technologies; and Cybertrust’s long-term support, security update platform, and Linux ecosystem utilization capabilities for its IoT and embedded device Linux OS “EMLinux.” By combining these strengths and expertise, the two companies will jointly develop a mixed-critical environment in a virtual environment where a real-time OS and Linux coexist. This will reduce the burden of increasingly complex software configurations and security compliance, while integrating processes requiring real-time control and functional safety with advanced information processing utilizing Linux, such as AI, networking, and data processing, on a single platform. This will enable the early practical application of high-value-added products and services utilizing physical AI. This SDx development platform is scheduled to be made available by the end of fiscal year 2026, and will be demonstrated at the Cybertrust booth at “eSOL Technology Forum 2026″ to be held in Shinagawa on Friday, July 17, 2026, and at “EdgeTech+ West 2026” to be held from Thursday, July 23, 2026.
Furthermore, in order to address the risks of the current international economic environment, we will enhance technological autonomy, supply continuity, and long-term maintainability to support product development companies in developing secure and sustainable software.
The two companies will proceed with joint verification, technical specification formulation, joint proposals, and ecosystem formation to widely deploy the “SDx development platform for the era of physical AI.” Through this initiative, they will support the early market introduction and enhanced competitiveness of value-added products equipped with physical AI in fields such as automobiles, robotics, and industrial controllers.
SOURCE: PRTimes
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