Toyota plans $6.4 billion a year for robots and factory automation
The carmaker aims to become a global robotics company through a programme covering humanoid robots and factory automation.
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The carmaker aims to become a global robotics company through a programme covering humanoid robots and factory automation.
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a $6.4 billion annual investment programme, the Financial Times said in reporting relayed by The Decoder on October 26.
The world’s largest automaker wants to become a global robotics company. Its programme covers humanoid robots—robots shaped like people—and factory automation. The 400,000 figure is a planned deployment total, not a count of robots already installed.
Investors expressed caution, pointing to Toyota’s earlier work on hydrogen cars and solid-state batteries, which they said had fallen short of expectations.
A Toyota executive said the company’s own factories would be the initial deployment setting because their environments are easier to control. Those plants are therefore the planned starting point for putting the robots to work.
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