Toyota's futuristic Woven City, a $10 billion project built on a former car factory in Japan, is nearing completion and set to welcome its first residents in 2025. The city will serve as a living laboratory for testing innovative technologies like autonomous vehicles, smart home systems, and robotics.
Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its first residents. At CES this week, the Japanese auto giant updated the public on the progress of the $10 billion project, which is said to be a “living laboratory” where people can live while also testing out futuristic projects. Toyota said it completed “phase 1” of the construction, with the official launch planned for 2025.
“Woven City is more than just a place to live, work, and play,” Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said during today’s press conference at CES. “Woven City is a place where people can invent and develop all kinds of new products and ideas. It’s a living laboratory where the residents are willing participants, giving inventors the opportunity to freely test their ideas in a secure, real-life setting.” Toyota first announced Woven City at CES in 2021. At the time, the company said it would be a “prototype city of the future” where it can test autonomous vehicles, innovative street design, smart home technology, robotics, and new mobility products on a population of real people who would live there full time. Now move-in day is quickly approaching. In fall 2025, Toyota said it will welcome the first 100 residents to Woven City, all of whom will be employees of Toyota or its subsidiary, Woven by Toyota. The community will gradually expand to include “external inventors and their families” who will be invited to relocate to the new city. In total, the first phase of the city will eventually house 360 residents, Toyota says. Toyota dubs these first residents “Weavers,” adding that they are people who “share a passion for the ‘expansion of mobility’ and a commitment to building a more flourishing society. Through their participation in co-creation activities, Weavers will contribute to realizing the full potential of Woven City
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