Forklifts that raise and lower heavy loads. Towing tractors that pull containers at airports.
You’ve probably seen these hardworking vehicles before. But this time, there’s no one in the driver’s seat!
Yuta Tomikawa can hardly contain his excitement in this week’s Toyota Times News special on the autonomous vehicles operating in plants and airports.
As President Koji Sato highlighted during the recent financial results briefing, the declining working population is an urgent issue. Could autonomous vehicles be a savior? We visited the front lines to find out.
This episode brings so many surprising developments. People operating forklifts in the U.S. all the way from Tokyo!
Amazing discoveries at a secret hideaway that we can’t even show you.
And what is this camera mounted beneath a vehicle doing there? What’s it filming?
At Toyota Industries, they continue development with the cooperation of a range of companies.
Japan’s first Level 4 autonomous towing tractor (fully automated without a driver under specific conditions) is now in operation at Haneda airport, while Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan’s Hakushu Plant is introducing autonomous forklifts with four forks.
CEO Dr. Gill Pratt of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a center for Toyota’s advanced AI research, says of this automated driving technology, “the key is the old Toyota idea of jidoka.”
Tune in to find out what he has to say about humans and machines working together.
