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- ACSL Ltd. ACSL Ltd. (6232.T) manufactures and sells industrial drones and provides automation solution services using autonomous control technology in Japan and internationally. Founded in November 2013 and headquartered in Tokyo, the company offers core products including the SOTEN small aerial photography drone for infrastructure inspection, disaster relief, patrol, and survey applications equipped with high-resolution cameras or LiDAR; the PF2-AE inspection drone for autonomous flights in challenging non-GPS environments such as indoors, smokestacks, bridges, and tunnels; and the PF2-AE Delivery AirTruck dedicated logistics drone for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations via LTE communications, targeting sectors like logistics, construction, energy, security, and disaster prevention with wind-resistant, dustproof, and waterproof designs enabling speeds up to 20 m/s. ACSL Ltd. serves customers including Japan Post for inter-post office transport and remote island delivery, infrastructure operators for plant and power generator inspections, and government entities for emergency response, while operating through subsidiaries such as ACSL, Inc. in the United States and past joint ventures like FINDi Co., Ltd. with NJS Co., Ltd. for closed-space drones and ACSL India Private Limited. Recent developments include receiving a Level 4 Class 1 UAS Type Certificate from Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in March 2023 and approval to export SOTEN drones to the U.S. in November 2023; establishing ACSL, Inc. in California in December 2022 to enter the North American market; signing a business and capital alliance with Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in December 2024; entering a distribution agreement with Exertis Almo in October 2024 resulting in an order for 500 SOTEN drones; and signing a memorandum of understanding with Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in January 2025 for strategic collaboration on construction drone applications. The company, formerly Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd. until its name change in June 2021, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in December 2018 and continues to pioneer Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous flights with milestones like LTE-based remote control in 2016 and Visual-SLAM technology commercialization in 2017.