Open-source software was once something that large businesses shied away from, but over the course of the last few years, it’s made inroads into virtually every enterprise company. With Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), the Linux Foundation hosts a project that aims to bring open source to the car industry. Read More
Category: Toyota
Toyota will offer Alexa in its cars starting later this year
Toyota announced at CES this year that the carmaker will be offering support for Amazon Alexa within its vehicles – no additional hardware required. There’s a lot of third-party devices out there that are putting Alexa on your dashboard as an aftermarket add-on, but Toyota is one of the first automakers to fully embrace loading their vehicles up with Amazon’s voice-powered… Read More
Toyota’s mobility business shifts into high gear at CES
Toyota took advantage of CES 2018 to signal a major shift in its business, becoming what company president Akio Toyoda termed a “mobility service company” during his keynote presentation. Toyota seems poised to embrace mobility services as a core part of its overall business, rather than an offshoot or subsidiary concern, based on Toyoda’s comments and the vision of the… Read More
Toyota’s e-Palette concept vehicle is your self driving food truck of the future
In the future, a self-driving pod could take you to work, deliver your food, and even be your new office.
At least, that’s the idea behind Toyota’s latest concept vehicle: an electric, self-driving pod called e-Palette that can be used for ride…
Toyota launches dedicated mobility services concept vehicle
Toyota has launched a new concept car that incorporates fully autonomous technology in a platform designed specifically for ride sharing and ride-hailing. The new ‘e-Palette’ concept car resembles a small shuttle, with a modular interior that can be changed depending on whether it’s used for ride-hailing, small cargo transport and on-demand delivery, or any other mobility… Read More
Toyota teams with Uber, Amazon, Pizza Hut, more on mobility services
Toyota has partnered with a number of companies to form the “e-Palette Alliance,” which is a group intended to help guide its transformation as a mobility services company, and determine how it makes use of its new e-Palette vehicle platform, which is a modular, driverless vehicle intended to suit a number of purposes at once. The alliance at launch includes Uber, Didi, Mazda,… Read More
Toyota tries to make its most advanced autonomous car look slightly normal
Toyota is bringing a sleek prototypical autonomous vehicle to this year’s 2018 CES tech conference. But the car certainly won’t be driving itself there.
Similar to many automotive showings at CES, this vehicle, which the Toyota Research Institu…
Toyota tries to make its most advanced autonomous car look slightly normal
Toyota is bringing a sleek prototypical autonomous vehicle to this year’s 2018 CES tech conference. But the car certainly won’t be driving itself there.
Similar to many automotive showings at CES, this vehicle, which the Toyota Research Institu…
You can virtually inhabit Toyota’s new humanoid robot
Toyota has a new, third-generation humanoid robot bears the charming name “T-HR3” and is designed to be a helpful and safe assistant to humans. It also features a so-called “master maneuvering systems,” which is essentially a VR-powered remote operating platform that a human can use to have the T-HR3 mirror its movements. Yes, kind of like a jaeger from kaiju movie… Read More
Toyota will test its self-driving cars in California on a closed obstacle course
Toyota is ready to expand work on its self-driving platform. Next up: The automaker will run its cars through the ringer on a private AV test course known for tough conditions.
The Japanese company’s autonomous R&D wing, Toyota Research Ins…