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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi. Founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937, Toyota produces vehicles under the Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino brands and is one of the worlds largest automakers.
Under the Toyota Production System framework the company is now industrialising humanoid and specialist robots on its factory floors. From 2028 Toyota plans to spend roughly 1 trillion yen a year deploying 400,000 robots across 60 plants worldwide, using 18,000 veteran takumi workers to teach machines complex manual tasks.