Toyota Bets 400,000 Robots Can Capture Craftspeople Skills That Took Decades to Build

Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 in-house-developed robots using advanced AI and actuator technology across 60 factories worldwide starting in 2028, aiming to replicate the embodied skills of 18,000 master craftspeople. Their robot, ELEY, utilises a novel quasi-direct drive actuator and an AI framework called Large Behavior Models to learn human-like tasks more effectively than previous industrial robots.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Robotics & UAV.