Toyota, Nissan, Honda Revive TECH DRIVERS With Four AI Sessions In FY2026
The return with an AI theme and a smaller four-session slate puts a joint forum back on the calendar at a moment when the three automakers are framing AI adoption through hardware and real-time constraints, not model design alone.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
TECH PLAY-X will again support planning and operation of TECH DRIVERS in FY2026, the engineer talk series hosted by Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. Four sessions are planned under the theme of AI. In the first three, one automaker and a guest company from another industry take the stage; the fourth is a joint Toyota, Nissan, and Honda session on AI development in mobility. The FY2025 edition ran seven sessions, mainly online.
The series previously ran under a different name. It succeeds the three-company Japan Mobility Tech Day, which began in 2024, and took the TECH DRIVERS name in FY2025, when seven sessions were held, mainly online. Each session pairs engineers from automakers with engineers from other industries around a technical entry point such as UX, cloud, or architecture, rather than an industry label.
The FY2026 framing narrows that to AI. The hosts note that using AI in automotive and mobility work brings requirements beyond safety and quality, including real-time processing and constraints on actual machines, so the discussion is meant to include semiconductors and control technology alongside models and software.
- Session 1: One automaker and a guest company from another industry
- Session 2: One automaker and a guest company from another industry
- Session 3: One automaker and a guest company from another industry
- Session 4: Joint session by Toyota, Nissan, and Honda
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