If there were any doubts about the fact that we’re now living in the future Toyota is here to dash them with Japan’s first smart city, complete with live-in robots and artificial intelligence.
Together with Woven Planet Holdings, Toyota held a ground-breaking ceremony for ‘Woven City’ on Tuesday, February 23, marking the beginning of work on what will be a ‘living laboratory’.
Located at a former Toyota factory site near Mount Fuji, the city will be powered by solar panels and electricity from fuel cells, which derive power from a hydrogen-oxygen reaction.
Check out plans for the city below:
According to a press release from the carmaker, Woven City will work to bring new technology into a ‘real-world environment’ across areas including automated driving, personal mobility, robotics and artificial intelligence.
The city will feature three different types of streets interwoven on the ground level; one dedicated to automated driving, one to pedestrians and one to pedestrians with personal mobility vehicles. An underground road will also be built to transport goods throughout the area.
