Toyota starts building smart city near Mt Fuji
Toyota Engine Corp on Tuesday started out construction of a good city at the ft . of Mt Fuji in central Japan as a screening ground for new technology incorporating robotics and artificial intelligence.
About 360 persons including Toyota employees will in the beginning move to the so-called Woven City to be built at the 70.8-hectare former Toyota factory web page in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, powered by electricity from gas cells, which derive power from a hydrogen-oxygen response, in addition to solar panels.
Toyota describes the location -- run with partner companies such as for example telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Phone Corp -- as a good "living laboratory" where it will test autonomous cars, robots and artificial cleverness in a real-community environment.
JAPAN automaker has commissioned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, who built the 2 2 World Trade Center in New York City and Google's headquarters in California, to plan the layout of the town.
Toyota said the roads in Woven City will come to be designated for three kind of usage -- faster cars only, personal mobility and pedestrians and a good pedestrians only promenade.
The buildings will mostly be produced of wood to minimize the carbon footprint, and the homes use sensor-based AI to check on the occupants' health, it said.
Source: japantoday.com
