Toyota Plans to Deploy 400,000 In-House-Developed Robots from 2028

Toyota held an investor briefing at Toyota Motor Europe, its European regional HQ. CTO Hiroki Nakajima announced plans to deploy a total of 400,000 robots from 2028 (150,000 at Toyota Motor Corporation, 250,000 units across group companies). During the briefing, Toyota demonstrated ELEY (Embodied Learning robot for Enhanced Yield), a robot powered by the LBM (Large Behavior Models) genAI technology developed by Toyota Research Institute in the US, performing the task of folding T-shirts. ELEY is capable of learning autonomously through activities such as transferring parts between containers, enabling it to identify the most efficient way to perform a given task. Toyota emphasized that robots are not intended to replace human workers;