Toyota Motor Corporation

• CUE7
• T-HR3

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

• CUE7 with Jetson AGX Orin Industrial

  Research Experiment - Embedded - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.

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• CUE7 with Connect Tech AGX202

  Research Experiment - Embedded - Connect Tech AGX202 is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.

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• CUE7 with Connect Tech JCB002

  Research Experiment - Embedded - Connect Tech JCB002 is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.

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Supply chain relationships

• Ryoyo Ryosan

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Ryosan Ryoyo supplied NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial and Connect Tech AGX202/JCB002 for Toyota CUE7 research

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• Symbio

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Toyota Motor North America used SymbioDCS to control robots on vehicle assembly lines in 2022

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• Hesai Technology

  Inbound - Sensing - Hesai's ATX lidar was selected for a Toyota China joint-venture vehicle planned for 2026 production

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• FAULHABER

  Inbound - actuation and motion control - FAULHABER motors powered Toyota CUE2 and CUE4 basketball-robot joints

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• Joby Aviation

  Outbound - actuation and motion control - Toyota contracted to manufacture Joby-designed powertrain and actuation components for Joby aircraft

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• TM - NYSE

• Koji Sato - President and CEO - Sato leads Toyota Motor Corporation, including robotics-adjacent mobility and manufacturing automation strategy.

Events

• 2026-10-06 - Capability - Toyota CUE7 adopts edge-AI compute supplied by Ryosan Ryoyo

  The configuration uses NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial, Connect Tech AGX202 and Connect Tech JCB002. Toyota selected the hardware for its compact, lightweight form and high-precision real-time recognition of the ball and surroundings. The research explores autonomous decisions and control for dribbling in response to irregular ball movement and changes in the environment.

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• 2026-09-18 - Market Signal - Toyota signals potential ¥1T annual factory-automation demand from 2028

  The estimate covers Toyota, group companies and major suppliers, with replacement and new-installation demand across industrial, logistics, humanoid and other robots. The roughly 400,000-robot figure describes the wider Toyota-linked ecosystem, not a humanoid-only deployment target. Toyota has not committed to the projected annual spend or specified how many years the investment would run.

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• 2026-09-14 - Deployment - NTT Mobility and May Mobility begin Toyota City autonomous-driving trial

  The first route runs between Toyota City Station and Toyota Stadium East through February 26, 2027, with free reserved rides for up to four passengers. A rural Sienna phase is planned for November, followed by an e-Palette route in a suburban district in February 2027. The programme evaluates Level 2 driving safety, remote supervision, transport-service viability and operating practices needed for eventual Level 4 service.

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• 2026-09-03 - Demonstration - May Mobility and NTT Mobility start e-Palette public-road testing

  The test operates around NTT Mobility's Co-Creation Hub in Musashino, Tokyo. NTT Mobility contributes communications, remote operations and in-cabin operating support. The partners plan additional Japanese demonstration sites this fiscal year; nationwide service and Level 4 operation remain future targets.

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• 2026-07-15 - Capability - Toyota expands NVIDIA physical-AI stack across factories, vehicles and cities

  Toyota is bringing NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Isaac Sim into manufacturing and robotics workflows for digital twins and robot-motion simulation. Next-generation Toyota vehicles are being developed with DRIVE AGX and DriveOS for L2++ driver-assistance functionality. Woven by Toyota developed a multimodal vision-language model for urban traffic intelligence using NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Megatron-Core.

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• 2026-06-30 - Award - Refined Robotics is named a Toyota Woven City pitch finalist

  Its pitch covered delivery across rough terrain, snow and transitions between outdoor and indoor spaces. The presentation described layered on-device safety architecture for autonomous systems sharing public space.

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• 2026-06-30 - Partnership - Joby and Toyota launch strategic manufacturing alliance

  The alliance applies Toyota production methods to manufacturing Joby's electric air taxi at commercial scale. Toyota engineers are working alongside Joby teams on factory layout, process planning and production-system development. Electric aircraft and air-taxi company with piloted commercial and autonomous defence programmes.

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• 2026-04-12 - Capability - Toyota debuts CUE7 basketball humanoid with lighter two-wheel design and hybrid AI control

  Toyota Frontier Research Center presented CUE7 as a lighter robot, reducing body weight from 120 kg to 74 kg and adopting an inverted two-wheel structure. The CUE7 control system combines reinforcement learning with model predictive control for more dynamic movement. Coverage of the live basketball demonstration described CUE7 standing from a seated posture, dribbling and making a free throw without human input.

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• 2025-08-15 - Partnership - Hesai Secures New Lidar Design Win from Toyota

  The technical configuration includes automotive lidar. The work is scoped to Toyota vehicle programme. The milestone records a selection or design win rather than completed deliveries.

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• 2025-01-06 - Facility Opening - Toyota completes Phase 1 construction of Woven City mobility test course

  Toyota completed Phase 1 construction of Woven City, its mobility test course in Susono City, Japan. The 175-acre project transforms the former Higashi-Fuji Plant site into a living laboratory for robotics and autonomous systems.

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• 2024-09-26 - Award - Toyota CUE6 sets farthest basketball shot record for a humanoid robot

  Toyota announced that CUE achieved a Guinness World Records title for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot. The shot distance was 24.55 meters. Toyota framed the result as part of CUE progression from repeated free throws toward longer-range physical skill challenges.

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• 2023-04-27 - Partnership - Joby and Toyota sign long-term component supply agreement

  Toyota will manufacture Joby-designed powertrain and actuation components under a signed long-term supply agreement. Components will go to Joby's San Carlos powertrain and electronics facility before completed assemblies are shipped to the Marina pilot production line. The agreement extends Toyota's production collaboration with Joby, which included helping design the Marina pilot line and applying Toyota Production System practices.

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• 2019-05-17 - Award - Toyota CUE3 sets assisted humanoid free-throw Guinness World Record

  CUE3 achieved the Guinness World Record for most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot. Toyota history records the assisted free-throw total as 2,020. The record helped turn CUE from an internal engineering project into a public-facing robotics showcase.

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• 2018-05-01 - Org Change - Toyota makes CUE an official internal robotics task

  Toyota CUE history says the project became an official task on May 1, 2018. The change followed the first-generation CUE debut at Alvark Tokyo home games in March 2018. The formalized program continued through multiple generations of basketball-playing humanoid robots.

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• 2017-04-01 - Demonstration - Toyota CUE project begins as internal basketball robot initiative

  Toyota says the CUE project began as an internal voluntary activity in 2017. The program later became one of Toyota representative robotics research efforts. The project used basketball shooting as a clear test of perception, control and repeatable physical execution.

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Profile notes

• Toyota suspended e-Palette after a Paralympic Village collision and resumed only after operational safeguards

  reviewed 2026-07-20 - An e-Palette struck a visually impaired athlete during the Tokyo Paralympics, prompting Toyota to suspend the autonomous shuttle service. Operations resumed with additional human oversight, audible warnings and intersection controls. The incident did not end the platform, but showed that its driverless operation depended on site procedures and attendants as well as onboard autonomy.

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Relationships

• NVIDIA

  Physical AI Compute, Simulation And Vehicle Platform Supplier - Toyota Motor Corporation is linked with NVIDIA through the cited event.

• Machina Labs

  Automotive Manufacturing Pilot Partner - Machina and Toyota Motor North America began a pilot for customised automotive body-panel production using RoboForming.

• READY Robotics

  Manufacturing Customer - Toyota adopted ForgeOS with NVIDIA Isaac Sim for hot-forging production lines.

• Inbolt

  Industrial Robot Vision Customer - Toyota is a disclosed customer using Inbolt industrial robot vision technology.

• Waymo

  Autonomous Platform Exploration Agreement - Waymo and Toyota reached a preliminary agreement to explore a new autonomous vehicle platform and personally owned vehicle applications.

• JAKA Robotics Co., Ltd.

  Partner - JAKA established cooperation with Toyota as it expanded robotics applications and technical support in Japan.

• New York University

  Robotics Research Industry Partner - NYU's Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence maintains an industry partnership with Toyota.

• May Mobility

  Autonomous Vehicle Platform Partnership - May Mobility and Toyota Motor Corporation collaborate on autonomy-ready vehicle platforms including the Toyota Sienna and e-Palette.

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Context tags

• Humanoid Motion Control - Workflow
• Physical AI Research - Stack Layer
• Reinforcement Learning Control - Stack Layer
• Robotics Research Program - Workflow
• Sports Robotics - Workflow
• Corporate Robotics Lab - Commercial Stage