Future city of Woven City: Toyota invites innovators to help shape!

Future city of Woven City: Toyota invites innovators to help shape!

Toyota has the first part of his visionary Woven City at the foot of the Majestic Mountain Fuji in Japancompleted. This city of the future is to become an innovative habitat in which around 2,000 residents, including researchers, Toyota employees and retirees, will find a new home. Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota, presented this ambitious project during the CES 2025 in Las Vegas and emphasized that the city is intended as a test environment for the technologies of tomorrow, including autonomous shuttles and futuristic robots, which were developed especially for older people, as well as drones that can accompany joggers, such as krone.at reported.

A call to innovators

Woven City is not only a place for living, but also a lively laboratory city for startups. Toyoda invites you according to techcrunch to implement their ideas in this unique environment. The city is to be officially opened from autumn 2025, and a pitch competition is planned to promote young talents to offer scholarships for startups or individuals who need financial support. Toyoda, who announced his plans five years ago, has expanded his vision to include new technologies such as electrical air taxis and rockets for advanced communication infrastructure that should support autonomous driving. Toyota has already invested 7 billion yen ($ 44 million) in the startup Interstellar Technologies.