Toyota plans to deploy 400K humanoid robots in a billion-dollar push to join the robot race

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Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a billion-dollar comeback in humanoid robotics, according to Semafor. The company says its roughly 20 years of data gives it an edge over upstart Chinese firms, which excel in hardware but lag Western companies in devising robots’ “brains.”

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1. Semafor

   26 Oct 2026, 22:37 UTCSource ↗

   Semafor reports that Toyota plans to deploy 400K robots in a billion-dollar humanoid robotics comeback, and that its 20 years of data give it an edge over Chinese upstarts that excel in hardware but lag Western firms in robot “brains.”