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…Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp., yesterday said it is acquiring CARMERA Inc., which specializes in spatial artificial intelligence for automated mobility. CARMERA will join Woven Planet Group as a wholly-owned subsidiary, expanding the company’s footprint beyond its Tokyo headquarters by adding New York and Seattle offices to its planned offices in Silicon Valley and London. Terms were…
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Toyota Research Institute today said that it has successfully developed new capabilities for robots to conduct complex tasks in home environments. The Toyota Motor Corp. unit said its researchers were able to train robots to understand and operate in complicated situations that would confuse most other robots, including recognizing and responding to transparent and reflective surfaces in a variety of…
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…aging agency partnerships this year.” Toyota, others continue to invest in Intuition Robotics Intuition Robotics' latest financing includes $20 million in venture capital and $5 million in venture debt. Woven Capital, the growth fund of Toyota, led the funding, with participation from Toyota Ventures, OurCrowd, Western Technology Investment, and additional investors. Past investors also include Samsung NEXT, iRobot, and Terra…
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced that the companies will join forces, combining two of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and robotics. The research partnership aims to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Partnership looks to push humanoid research further Boston Dynamics has a longstanding reputation…
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…systems, and AI-powered consumer gadgets. Toyota and NVIDIA At the show, Toyota’s booth showcases the T-HR3 humanoid partner robot. The robot is controlled by a human driver, whose movements dictate the robot's action. GPU maker NVIDIA plays a role in the development of T-HR3. Its Isaac software development kit for AI-driven robotics—a technology for training and simulating robots—is part of…
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…manufacturing customization. Pilot program with Toyota, customized manufacturing processes Machina Labs made the announcement UP.Summit 2025 in Bentonville, Ark., alongside a pilot of the technology with Toyota Motor North America and a strategic investment from Woven Capital, Toyota’s growth-stage venture investment arm. “We envision a future where customization is available for every Toyota driver,” said Zach Choate, general manager of…
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced what it said is a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot. In the video below, the companies showcased how Atlas performs a long, continuous sequence of complex tasks that require combining object manipulation with locomotion. By adopting LBMs,…
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…custom roof racks for three Toyota pickup and SUV models; the Tacoma, the Tundra and the 4Runner. Because these racks fit extremely tight to the roof and Hamar needed an accurate roof profile in about 12 spots, the company determined that 3D laser scanning would provide the most geometrically correct representation of the roofs. Hamar contacted fellow Texas firm NVision,…
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Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has signed an agreement to acquire Vanderlande, a global market leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports, warehouses and the parcel market, from the company’s current owner NPM Capital. The acquisition has been fully approved and supported by Vanderlande’s Supervisory and Management Boards, and Works Council. Vanderlande will retain its name and corporate identity, as…
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…work outdoors,” the company said. Toyota co-leads farming tech funding S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures led Burro's Series A round. It is Toyota Ventures' first investment in agricultural robotics. F-Prime Capital and the Cibus Enterprise Fund joined the round along with existing investors including Radicle Growth and ffVC. “Charlie and the Burro team have big plans to drive their product…
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…such as General Electric and Toyota. “Over the last decade, our AMRs have solved material handling challenges for some of the largest companies in the world, but our customers have made it clear that there was a missing member of the team—one that could pick up a pallet on its own,” said Matt Rendall, CEO of OTTO Motors. “We’ve answered…
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…That’s according to Chad McIntyre, Toyota’s IoT delivery manger. You could call that your data to-do list. On-board object sensing keeps drivers safe. As Collin Rush, director of InfoLink customer support at Crown Equipment, says that data has both real-time and historical roles. An example of real-time data is an alert sent to the operator and manager every time the…
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…That’s according to Chad McIntyre, Toyota’s IoT delivery manger. You could call that your data to-do list. On-board object sensing keeps drivers safe. As Collin Rush, director of InfoLink customer support at Crown Equipment, says that data has both real-time and historical roles. An example of real-time data is an alert sent to the operator and manager every time the…
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February 2026 Robotics Recap
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…growth of the region are Toyota Industries Corporation (Japan), Daifuku Co., Ltd. (Japan), Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Japan), Fanuc Corporation (Japan), UniCarriers Corporation (Japan), Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (China), and Xuzhou Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. (China). The market for automated guided vehicles (AGV) is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022, mainly driven by the…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…
