Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 45.82
March 10, 2013
Toyota Material Handling offers a full line of material handling products and solutions proudly assembled in the United States, including forklifts, reach trucks, order pickers, pallet jacks, container handlers, automated guided vehicles, and tow tractors, along with aerial work platforms, fleet management services, and advanced automation engineering and design. Toyota’s commitment to quality, reliability and customer satisfaction, the hallmark of the Toyota Production System, extends throughout more than 230 locations across North America.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.24
August 07, 2023
…Inc. held a joint venture signing ceremony today with Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co. and GAC Toyota Motor Co. The three parties said they will work together toward mass production and large-scale deployment of fully self-driving robotaxis. Founded in 2016, Pony.ai said its goal is “to bring safe, sustainable, and accessible mobility to the entire world.” The Fremont, Calif.-based company, which raised Series D funding last year, has been rapidly extending its autonomous vehicle technologies at multiple sites. Pony.ai said its systems have driven more than 24 million km (14.9 million mi.) in autonomous testing and operation on open roads…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.25
March 18, 2022
Toyota Ventures yesterday launched its third global “call for innovation” to search for early-stage companies that can help make the “factory of the future” a reality sooner. Qualified entrepreneurs can apply for an opportunity to receive between $500,000 and $2 million in funding from Toyota Ventures. “We take a founder-first approach to investing, partnering with entrepreneurs to help them bring disruptive technologies and business models to market more quickly,” said Jim Adler, founding managing director of Toyota Ventures. “With the 2022 call for innovation, we are looking to support talented startup teams that are developing smarter and more sustainable factories…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.46
June 04, 2021
Toyota Motor Corp.'s first standalone, early-stage venture capital firm, Toyota AI Ventures, yesterday said it will change its name to Toyota Ventures and grow its total assets under management to more than $500 million. The addition of two $150 million early-stage funds—the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund—reflect its commitment to partnering with entrepreneurs and innovators, as well as its support of environmental sustainability, said the company. “Startups are tackling the world's challenges, and at Toyota Ventures we want to open even more paths to investing in them,” stated Jim Adler, founding managing director of Toyota…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.20
July 02, 2021
Swisslog Holding AG last week said that Toyota Motor North America will install a goods-to-person automation system that includes Swisslog's CarryPick storage and order-picking system in its facility in Hebron, Ky. The goal is to increase flexibility and efficiency, as well as enable continued growth to keep up with demand in the automotive spare parts market, according to the companies. “Swisslog is excited to work with Toyota to bring flexibility and efficiency to its spare parts fulfillment process,” said Markus Schmidt, president of Swisslog Americas. “Swisslog's CarryPick allows the company to quickly and easily deploy a flexible and modular approach…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.02
February 11, 2022
Toyota Motor North America has turned to Symbio Robotics Inc. to make better use of the industrial robots on its assembly lines as it shifts to electric vehicles. Toyota is using the SymbioDCS software framework to program its industrial robots to automate assembly processes and to better take advantage of the robots' artificial intelligence capabilities. “Symbio’s AI-based software gives Toyota’s team real-time control of our industrial robots and provides even more flexibility to help meet changing customer and market demand,” said Pascal Renouil, general manager of advanced technology at Toyota Motor North America. AI software unlocks new robot capabilities SymbioDCS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.45
August 30, 2019
3D Systems and TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH (TMG), a wholly owned subsidiary of TOYOTA Motor Corporation, announce they have entered a partnership to change automotive engineering. Through this partnership, the companies intend to develop manufacturing solutions, including 3D printers, materials and software—to change automotive design and production. “TMG has chosen 3D Systems for this partnership because they share our pioneering spirit—exhibited by the fact that they introduced the world to 3D printing. We see the unparalleled potential of combining 3D Systems’ expertise and know-how with that of TMG to create technologies and define new additive manufacturing innovations in the automotive industry,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.36
May 26, 2021
The Toyota Research Institute, or TRI, has developed soft grippers for domestic robot hands and today said it is sharing the design source files and full build instructions to help advance the technology. It is offering the materials on Punyo.tech so research institutions and aspiring roboticists can build their own Punyo Soft Bubble Grippers. “The soft robotics community is small, and the visuotactile sensing community is even smaller,” said Alex Alspach, manager of the Robotics Tactile Team at TRI and the lead developer of the Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper. “By sharing the blueprints for this gripper with the world, we…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.86
April 20, 2021
Toyota Industries Corp., or TICO, today announced that it will consolidate its software development efforts for autonomous vehicles, increase its global investments, and establish T-Hive B.V. as a new center of excellence. TICO said the combination of offerings from its group companies will strengthen its brand portfolio and meet the increasing demands of its customers. Sakichi Toyoda founded Toyota Industries Corp. in 1926 for the manufacture and sale of the Type G automatic loom that he had invented. The Japanese company later expanded to automotive-related fields such as engines and air-conditioning compressors. It also made industrial vehicles such as lift…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.65
January 18, 2024
READY Robotics is collaborating with Toyota Motor Corporation and NVIDIA to bring a leap forward in industrial robotics. Toyota will employ READY ForgeOS in tandem with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulator developed on NVIDIA Omniverse, to build a simulated robotic programming environment for its aluminum hot forging production lines. This collaboration is set to enhance safety and efficiency in Toyota’s manufacturing processes. Typically, programming robotic systems for forging necessitates that the metal parts remain hot during programming, presenting significant safety challenges. With the integration of ForgeOS and NVIDIA Isaac Sim - an extensible application developed on the Omniverse platform…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.59
June 21, 2021
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 circumstances. “Our goal is to build robotic capabilities that amplify, not replace, human abilities,” said Max Bajracharya, vice president of robotics at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). “Training robots to understand how to operate in home environments poses special challenges because…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.46
July 13, 2022
…said it plans to continue deployment programs using the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS platform, named for autonomous mobility as a service. May Mobility also plans to begin development of the Toyota e-Palette vehicle. “With the close of this latest investment round, May Mobility will continue to accelerate growth in our technology, business development, and platforms, all with a global reach,” said Edwin Olson, CEO of May Mobility. “Our additional investors, as well as our continued strategic collaboration with Toyota and others, will enable us to march toward driver-out commercial operations in 2023 and enable our expansion into new markets as we…
