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MODEX 2026: Toyota Industries Corporation announces global leadership of Toyota Automated Logistics

April 8, 2026 · Ahead of MODEX 2026, Toyota Industries Corp. announced Hitoshi Matsuoka, Thomas Hibinger and Aaron M. Jones as Toyota Automated Logistics’ leadership.

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Agility Robotics announces agreement to deploy Digit humanoid at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada

February 19, 2026 · Agility Robotics and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada announced an agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots at the Woodstock, Ontario, facility.

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Boston Dynamics, Toyota Research Institute demonstrate Large Behavior Model powering Atlas humanoid robot

August 29, 2025 · Through the joint research collaboration of Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute said it has taken a key step toward general-purpose humanoids with LBMs and Atlas.

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Hyundai to deploy Boston Dynamics humanoids, quadrupeds

April 7, 2025 · At a Boston Dynamics town hall meeting, Hyundai Motor Group announced it will deploy tens of thousands of Atlas humanoids and Spot quadrupeds to expand manufacturing collaboration.

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Toyota merges Bastian Solutions and viastore North America

April 3, 2025 · Toyota Industries Corporation recently merged viastore’s North American pallet material handling offerings with Bastian Solutions automation integration capabilities.

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Toyota, READY Robotics to introduce sim-to-real robotic programming in industrial manufacturing

January 18, 2024 · Toyota, READY Robotics and NVIDIA collaborate in effort to optimize and enhance safety in car manufacturer's aluminum hot forging production process.

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Intuition Robotics Gets $25M in New Funding After Commercial Launch of ElliQ Social Companion

August 29, 2023 · Intuition Robotics plans to use its latest funding to support growth, further develop ElliQ's capabilities with AI, and help meet the demand to alleviate loneliness.

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Pony.ai and Toyota to Form Joint Venture to Advance Mass Production of L4 Autonomous Vehicles

August 7, 2023 · Pony.ai, Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., and GAC Toyota Motor Co. are cooperating toward large-scale deployment of self-driving robotaxis being tested in China.

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Toyota Research Institute Shares Results of $100M Research Partnership With U.S. Universities

May 16, 2023 · Toyota Research Institute reported results of its collaborative research program with institutions including Columbia University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan.

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Humanoid Robotics Industry Continues Expanding Capabilities, Finds The Brainy Insights

April 15, 2023 · Humanoid robot developers are making technical progress, reports The Brainy Insights, and their full market potential has yet to be realized as capabilities mature.

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Raymond Shows Off Integrated Intralogistics Systems at ProMat 2023

March 23, 2023 · Raymond Corp. showed its latest autonomous lift trucks at ProMat 2023, as well as new electric vehicles, connected technologies, and educational offerings.

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Toyota Research Institute Provides a Peek Into Its Work to Solve Society’s Biggest Challenges

February 15, 2023 · The Toyota Research Institute opened its Los Altos, Calif., headquarters to show its research into robotics, autonomous vehicles, AI, and human-machine interaction.

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First Robotics Applications Conference Shares Insights With Commercial Robot Ecosystem

October 6, 2022 · The first annual Robotics Applications Conference, presented by Robotics 24/7 and Peerless Media, featured industry experts and drew an educated audience of users, integrators, and suppliers.

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Robot Block Party Held by MassRobotics Shows Off Massachusetts Innovations

October 3, 2022 · At its Fifth Annual Robot Block Party, MassRobotics and numerous companies showed the public how robots have developed to help companies and consumers.

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May Mobility Closes $111M Series C Funding to Develop Toyota Autonomous Mobility Platforms

July 13, 2022 · May Mobility has raised funding to continue deploying mobility as a service with autonomous vehicles with partners including Toyota, MONET Technologies, and SoftBank.

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Toyota Ventures Opens 2022 Call for Factory of the Future Innovation

March 18, 2022 · Toyota Ventures' third global call of innovation seeks startups that can apply AI, robotics, and other technologies to enable Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing.

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Toyota Motor North America Uses Symbio Robotics Software in High Volume Assembly

February 11, 2022 · Toyota Motor North America is using Symbio Robotics' AI to program assembly robots as it shifts to electric vehicles.

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Agtonomy Closes $5M Round for Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Equipment

January 21, 2022 · Agtonomy, which is developing a human-supervised platform to automate agricultural equipment in response to labor shortages and sustainability challenges, closed its Seed II round.

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TRI Announces Machine Learning Advances at International Conference on Computer Vision

October 11, 2021 · The Toyota Research Institute, or TRI, is presenting six papers that it said advance the state of the art in machine learning and computer vision for robots and other applications.

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Burro Raises $10.9M Series A to Commercialize Collaborative Agricultural Robot

September 29, 2021 · Burro, formerly known as Augean Robotics, has raised Series A funding to expand its agricultural fleet for grapes, nurseries, and berries to more than 500 robots next year.

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