Toyota Reaffirms Commitment to a Sustainable Future

PLANO, Texas, April 24, 2018—Toyota today released four papers that detail the company’s environmental sustainability positions in North America as it works toward the goals of its Global Environmental Challenge, which sets sustainability targets for the company to achieve by 2050. The papers detail the efforts the company is taking to minimize environmental impact, protect… Continue reading Toyota Reaffirms Commitment to a Sustainable Future

Welcoming Alex MacKenzie-Torres to the Toyota AI Ventures Team

As we add more startups to our portfolio, we’re growing our team, as well — and we’re delighted to introduce the newest addition to Toyota AI Ventures: Alex MacKenzie-Torres. As Vice President of Business Development and Innovation, Alex will be supporting our portfolio companies by serving as a liaison to the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and the… Continue reading Welcoming Alex MacKenzie-Torres to the Toyota AI Ventures Team

Alabama A&M University and Toyota Collaborate on Mobility Initiative

Huntsville, Ala., April 13, 2018—Alabama A&M University (AAMU) and Toyota Motor North America today announced a collaboration to launch a student-led mobility initiative.  The aim of the program, which begins the fall semester of 2018, will bring the local community together with students to find better ways to connect people to things like education and jobs,… Continue reading Alabama A&M University and Toyota Collaborate on Mobility Initiative

Self-Supervised Learning: A Key to Unlocking Self-Driving Cars?

The holy grail for many artificial intelligence (AI) startups is to easily obtain data, and then extract value from that data with minimal human intervention. Self-supervised learning is an innovative approach that uses visual signals or domain knowledge, intrinsically correlated to the image, as automatic sources of supervision, thus removing the need for humans to… Continue reading Self-Supervised Learning: A Key to Unlocking Self-Driving Cars?