Toyota wants a robot on the assembly line that is soft enough to bump into things. That's the unusual engineering goal behind ...

Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations.

Whether that holds depends on decisions nobody has made yet. Toyota has a long record of framing automation as support for ...

Robots building cars is hardly a new concept. Automated machinery has been welding, painting, and assembling vehicles for ...

Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to ...

Toyota will deploy 400,000 robots in its factories in an attempt to modernize and ramp up its global operations, but also cut ...

China has taken a major step toward commercial humanoid robot production after UBTECH began ...

Approximately 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide in 2025 for industrial and professional service applications, according to data compiled by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and ...

Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began walking off the job early after negotiations with the South Korean automaker broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots—the most significant ...

The humanoid robot was ready to work as soon as it was put together. It walked right out to receive its staff badge.

Government funding and manufacturing investment are racing ahead of the robots’ ability to operate beyond choreographed demonstrations – like the dances and boxing matches that have made humanoids ...