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Monday ’s ToyotaCESpress group discussion was all aboutWoven City , the automaker ’s contrive residential district at the base of Mount Fuji . Robotics will undoubtedly toy a major role in the company ’s bid to automate as much of the 2,000 - person urban center as possible , include self-reliant cars and drone contrive to chaperone people back home after darkness .
One big piece of this is ongoing attempt by the company ’s enquiry wing — TRI — toimprove how automaton learn . The institute recently announce a partnership with Boston Dynamics that will bring its imitation learning tech to the newfangled electric Atlas humanoid robot .
A delicate undertaking like triiodothyronine - shirt folding is as good a place to start as any . chief executive officer Akio Toyoda demo off how the troupe taught robot arms to close down t - shirts Nipponese style . jump with a pair of manual graspers , the human demonstrates the correct way to fold a shirt . The system is capable to blame up the accomplishment overnight , according to Toyota .
T - shirt folding is , of course , simply an example of dexterity . Notably , among the plotted 2,000 resident expected to move into Woven City are a turn of retired mass . Over the past several decades , Japan has increasingly looked to mechanisation in a bid to assist its aging population .
Woven City is , in part , a demonstration of what the futurity of handle for aged adults could look like .
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