Toyota Activates Woven City as Living Lab for Future Mobility

• Toyota and Woven by Toyota officially open Woven City for live co-creation and urban tech testing.
• The launch kicks off real-world deployment of AVs, logistics platforms, and personal mobility systems.

Toyota has officially launched Woven City, a live-in prototype city in Susono, Japan. Described as a "real-world test course for mobility," the city enables companies and researchers to develop, deploy, and evaluate products and services in real environments.

Woven City brings together two core groups of participants. Inventors include startups, established companies, and research teams who are building and trialing new products within the city. Residents, known as Weavers, live on site and interact with these technologies in everyday settings to provide feedback. The first group of Weavers, made up of Toyota employees and their families, began moving in this month. Phase 1 will eventually accommodate approximately 300 people, with public access expected to follow in 2026.

Early projects in Woven City include autonomous vehicles, on-demand mobility, and automated logistics. Toyota is piloting its e-Palette platform for mobile services and deploying compact personal mobility vehicles as part of a shared transport system, while Summon Share, a self-driving delivery robot, brings vehicles directly to users. Woven by Toyota is also testing a logistics platform that supports day-to-day functions such as deliveries, cleaning, and storage within the city.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Toyota has built an ecosystem that moves innovation out of the lab and into real life. By pairing inventors with residents, Woven City offers a rare chance to see how emerging technologies actually perform in everyday settings.

Source: Toyota