Toyota (incl. Toyota Research Institute)

Toyota Motor Corporation, founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda and listed in Tokyo and New York, has run humanoid projects for two decades without turning any into a product. Its Partner Robots played drums and trumpets at the 2005 Aichi Expo, and a running version reached 7 km/h on flat ground in 2009. The third generation, T-HR3, appeared in 2017 as a teleoperated humanoid that mirrors an operator wearing a master control system and returns force feedback; an improved version with a Master Hand for finger-level control and lighter limbs was shown at iREX in Tokyo in December 2019. Toyota's stated motives are care work and remote operation by caregivers. The CUE basketball-shooting robot is a separate demonstration line.

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Los Altos, California, works on manipulation rather than walking. Its Punyo project, described publicly in April 2024, scales up soft bubble grippers into a humanoid upper body whose arms and chest are covered in air bladders with tactile sensing, so it can hug grocery bags and heavy objects against its torso. On 20 August 2025 TRI and Boston Dynamics showed a Large Behavior Model driving Atlas through tasks that mix manipulation and locomotion, with new skills added without hand-programming.

No Toyota humanoid has been deployed commercially, and the Boston Dynamics work is a research partnership with a company owned by rival Hyundai.