トヨタ、内製ロボット40万台を工場に導入へ

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is September nineteenth. Toyota has unveiled a huge plan: four hundred thousand AI robots working alongside people in its factories. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down, sentence by sentence.

Toyota announced it will introduce four hundred thousand in-house AI robots into its factories worldwide from twenty twenty-eight.

It means introduction — bringing something new into use.

In-house production means making machines and robots inside your own company instead of buying them from outside.

It means making things in-house, in your own company.

From twenty twenty-eight, Toyota plans to invest about one trillion yen every year to renew its sixty factories around the world.

It means investment — putting money into something.

The robot weighs about fifty kilograms and moves on wheels, not on two legs.

It means a wheel.

The robots watch people work, learn, and become able to do the same tasks by themselves.

It means work — a task you carry out.

At the presentation, the robot was shown learning from a person and folding a T-shirt.

It means showing something to the public for the first time.

The goal is not to replace people, but for robots to work together with employees.

It means working together on the same job.

In Japan the working population is shrinking, and labor shortages at factories are a big challenge.

It means a labor shortage — not enough workers.

Toyota says it wants to use AI and robots to take people-centered manufacturing to the next stage.

It means a stage or phase.

Let's listen to the whole story one more time.

Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

Four hundred thousand robots.

It moves on wheels.

About one trillion yen a year.

That's all for today. Robots that learn by watching people — the factory of the future is getting closer. See you next time.