Toyota Research Institute
Toyota's US research arm, working on robot foundation models, automated driving and materials.
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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is a research organisation of Toyota based in the United States, with robotics work in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its large behavior model team published a peer-reviewed evaluation of multitask robot manipulation policies in Science Robotics on April 15, 2026, with co-authors from Cornell University and MIT.
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