丰田计划部署40万台机器人，作为每年64亿美元投资计划的一部分，旨在实现装配线自动化，这家日本巨头正借助其历史积累，在类人机器人竞赛中追赶进度。
Toyota is planning to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a $6.4 billion annual investment plan to automate assembly lines, as the Japanese giant draws on its history to make up ground in the humanoids race.
伯恩斯坦分析师对《金融时报》表示，丰田拥有20年的数据积累，这使其相较于在硬件方面表现出色但在设计机器人“大脑”方面落后于西方公司的中国初创企业具有优势，从而能够将“机器人、人工智能和生产流程整合成一个更优越的操作系统”；这也可能帮助丰田填补日本老龄化国家的劳动力短缺。
Toyota has 20 years of data to pull from, giving it an edge over upstart Chinese firms that excel in hardware but lag Western companies in devising robots’ “brains,” allowing the carmaker to integrate “robots, AI, and production processes into a superior operating system,” a Bernstein analyst told the Financial Times; that could also allow Toyota to plug the aging country’s labor shortfalls.
一位投资者表示：“丰田正在开发自己的大型行为模型。谁控制了软件层，谁就将控制全球制造业。”
“Toyota is developing its own large behavioural models,” an investor said. “Whoever controls the software layer will control global manufacturing.”