Toyota plans $6.4 billion yearly on humanoid robots and automation

Toyota is positioning itself as a global robotics company, committing about $6.4 billion a year to humanoid robots and factory automation.

Why it matters: A major automaker putting multi-billion annual budgets behind humanoids signals that physical AI is moving from demos to industrial capex. It also pairs with covered work like Nvidia Flora cutting robot video labeling costs, which lowers the data barrier for exactly this kind of deployment.