Toyota opens Woven City as a living lab for future lifestyles

Japan – Toyota has opened its experimental Woven City at the base of Mount Fuji, creating a testbed where residents live alongside prototypes of emerging technologies such as flying taxis, robot pets and drones that escort you home at night.

First announced at CES in 2020, the development brings together staff engineers, researchers and their families in a fully connected environment designed to trial innovations in real time. Smart homes are equipped with robotics to support daily routines, while autonomous e-Palette vehicles move people and goods around the city. Toyota envisages future applications that include robots capable of learning how to fold shirts, highlighting the project’s ambition to integrate AI and automation into everyday life.

Initially home to about 360 people, the community is expected to grow to more than 2,000 residents, who will play an active role in shaping how technologies evolve. Woven City signals a new era of consumer research and prototyping, where ideas move beyond labs and into the lived experience. 

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