Toyota to scrap carbon neutrality center and focus on robotics… Company to launch company-wide direct-reporting robotics division in 2027

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In the rapidly changing global mobility industry environment, Toyota Motor Corporation will swiftly establish a dedicated organization that consolidates a large number of robotics-related capabilities and talent to maximize its competitiveness.

Through a major organizational restructuring recently carried out, Toyota announced that it will comprehensively reorganize key divisions, including the existing Carbon Neutrality (CN) Development Center, and officially launch "Toyota Robotics," a top-tier specialized organization directly under the company, effective January 1, 2027. This strategic move visualizes the strong resolve to concentrate company-wide resources on robotics as a core future growth driver, going beyond the realm of traditional finished vehicle manufacturing.

The newly established robotics division will be directly led and commanded by Shiga Takefumi, Executive Officer and Chief Production Officer (CPO), who will serve as its head. The division will strongly unify into a single system the core specialized knowledge, outstanding talent, and advanced technological functions related to robotics that have been scattered across the group. Through this organizational restructuring, Toyota plans to progressively advance a specific and systematic commercialization roadmap: directly and thoroughly verifying and refining robot technology in the group's vast global production sites, and subsequently fully expanding its business scope into the external commercial market.

The global automotive industry analyzes that Toyota's such move will serve as a strong foundation for proactively securing solid internal demand, closely linked to the replacement needs of aging production equipment across the entire global supply chain. Through this, the company aims to pursue sustainable revenue growth after 2030 while maximizing the efficiency and productivity of manufacturing processes amid deepening cost pressures in the rapidly changing global finished vehicle market and the uncertain transition to electrification. The establishment of Toyota's robotics division is expected to be a very important watershed for a traditional global manufacturing giant moving toward future-oriented structural improvement centered on software and autonomous robots.

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