Five years in the past, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda went to CES to share with the world his “personal field of dreams” — a plan to construct a prototype metropolis on a 175-acre website on the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, the place folks would dwell and work amongst all of Toyota’s initiatives, together with autonomous car know-how, robotics, sensible home-connected know-how, and AI.
Toyoda will return to CES, the annual tech commerce present in Las Vegas this yr to lastly reveal his “living laboratory,” known as Woven City. The Toyota press convention, wherein Chairman Toyoda can have a starring function, shall be held at 1 p.m. PT/four p.m. ET on January 6 throughout CES media day. The presentation shall be livestreamed on the corporate’s web site.
In a video that teases the upcoming showcase, Toyoda dons a tough hat and security vest as he heads into a contemporary multi-story constructing. He arrives on an higher flooring after which removes the protecting overlaying of the window, revealing Mount Fuji within the background and exclaiming “Welcome to Woven City!”
Details are slim about precisely what shall be revealed. TechCrunch, which was on the preliminary announcement in 2020, shall be watching to see how startups shall be included into Woven City and whether or not Toyota adopted by on its plans to construct a totally related ecosystem powered by hydrogen gas cells.
