How Toyota Will Use Robots at the Tokyo Olympics
- Autonomous vehicles to serve Olympic athletes in 2020
- Toyota targets lowest fleet emission level for Olympic cars
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When athletes and organizers descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Games, they’ll be ferried around in autonomous cars, while torch relay runners will be accompanied by AI-equipped cars. Robots will ferry javelins and hammers.
All told, Toyota Motor Corp. will provide 3,700 vehicles, including dozens of self-driving cars, about 500 fuel-cell vehicles and 850 battery-electric cars to the international sports competition.