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Toyota’s Woven City is open for business and looking for startups

Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock full of startups and technology. His message: Woven

This summer, the company is launching a pitch competition and will offer scholarships to the Woven City for “startups or individuals who need financial support to bring their ideas to life,” Toyoda said. Back then, the plans was to build a utopian city of sorts, where people would live and work amongst all of Toyota’s projects, including its autonomous e-Palette shuttles and robots. While on stage, he touched on electric air taxis — specifically mentioning Joby Aviation, which it recently invested $500 million into — autonomous vehicle tech, and rockets.

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