Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 in-house robots — including humanoid units like “Eley” — across its factories worldwide, with 150,000 going to its own plants. It’s part of a ~$6.4B/year automation push starting around 2028, aimed at humans and robots working side by side, not full replacement.
I still don’t get the humanoid robot thing. At that spend you could just build the dark factories like China