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Toyota Motor is a robotics company founded 1937, based in Japan, developing 3 robots primarily in the Mobile Manipulator category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Toyota Motor has no confirmed funding round on file and has 2 cited customers but no deployment on record.
Shipped
2customers cited
named in public sources · no deployment on record
- U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Romulo Camargo· 2018mag.toyota.co.uk ↗
- Frontier Research Center of Toyota Motor Corporation· 2019global.toyota ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Toyota Motor.
In Mobile Manipulator, Exail has deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Leading mobility innovation with robotics like HSR and Potaro to enhance care for elderly and disabled globally.
Toyota Motor Corporation builds robotics products including the Human Support Robot (HSR), a compact mobile manipulator for elderly and disabled users, and Potaro, an in-hospital delivery robot for transporting medication. Buyers include healthcare facilities, rehabilitation centers, and research institutions in Japan, Europe, and the US. Key differentiators include voice/tablet control, semiautonomous navigation, and pan-tilt vision. Toyota operates globally with robotics research hubs in Japan and Europe.
Active products
3
RoboIndex
52.83
RoboScore 52.83 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- Legal name
- Toyota Motor Corporation
- HQ
- Toyota City, Japan
- Founded
- 1937 · 89 yrs
- Employees
- 70,000+
- Website
- global.toyota/en
RoboScore
52.83 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #24 of 42·Hospitality·best robot 54.57 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 54.57
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Awards & recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies Program Selection2018blog.siggraph.org ↗
Milestones
Toyota began developing Potaro, a robot for transporting medication in hospitals.
HSR was showcased in the SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies program.
Toyota introduced the Human Support Robot (HSR) as part of its Partner family of robots.
Press coverage
- Robots Carrying Medicine in Place of Humans! | Frontier Research
Toyota Global · Jan 2019
- Robotics at Toyota
Toyota Europe · Mar 2020
- Toyota Human Support Robot: What is it and how can it be used?
Toyota UK · Jun 2018
- Evaluation of the Toyota Human Support Robot (HSR) for Social Learning
PMC · Feb 2019
- Inspired by Service Dogs: Inside Toyota's Human Support Robot
SIGGRAPH Blog · Feb 2019
Public loss record
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Active products by Toyota Motor
3 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Human Support Robot | Mobile Manipulator | Payload 1.2 kg | 2012 | 57.6 |
| 2 |  | Human Support Robot (HSR) | Mobile Manipulator | Payload 1.2 kg | 2012 | 55.7 |
| 3 |  | Potaro | Hospitality | — | 2023 | 54.6 |
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