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The Toyota stand at this year's Tokyo Motor Show is turning into a huge mobility theme park: Visitors catch a glimpse into the future - and can take action themselves.With real models as well as photos and videos on large screens, Toyota presents its vision of the future in which people are even more in the spotlight. Vehicles support the mobility of each individual and create a new form of driving pleasure. Those who follow the future path at the Toyota stand will encounter people, robots and mobility solutions for different fields of application. For example, the Toyota Micro range serves drinks, while the E-Broom ensures a unique flight experience. Visitors can earn points on their way through a total of four areas, which they can exchange for a small gift at the Toyota Convenience Store, a futuristic business at the exit of the mobility company of the future.
The five finalists in the three-year Mobility Unlimited Challenge have been unveiled at CES in Las Vegas. The Toyota Mobility Foundation launched the $4 million global challenge in 2017 in partnership with Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre, with the aim of improving the lives of millions of people with lower-limb paralysis.The Challenge invited engineers, innovators, and designers from across the world to submit designs for game-changing technologies, incorporating intelligent systems, to improve the mobility and independence of people with lower-limb paralysis. Central to the Challenge is the importance of collaboration with end-users to develop devices which will integrate seamlessly into users’ lives and environments, while being comfortable and easy to use, enabling greater independence and increased participation in daily life.Each of the five finalists will receive a grant of $500,000 to develop their concept further, with the final winner of the Challenge receiving $1 million in Tokyo in 2020. The five finalists are: The Evowalk: Evolution Devices (United States) - a non-intrusive sleeve which goes around the user’s leg and has sensors that track the user’s walking motion and will stimulate the right muscles at the right time to improve mobility. Moby: Italdesign (Italy) - an integrated network of wheel-on powered devices, allowing users of manual wheelchairs the convenience and benefits of a powered chair, accessible via an app-based share scheme. Phoenix Ai Ultralight Wheelchair: Phoenix Instinct (United Kingdom) - an ultra-lightweight, self-balancing, intelligent wheelchair which eliminates painful vibrations. Qolo (Quality of Life with Locomotion): Team Qolo, University of Tsukuba, (Japan) - a mobile exoskeleton on wheels, allowing users to sit or stand with ease. Quix: IHMC & MYOLYN (United States) - a highly mobile, powered exoskeleton offering fast, stable and agile upright mobility.
Madrid, Sep 21 (EFE).- (Camera: Ángel Herrera) Starting in January, Madrid will have the largest technological innovation testing area for mobility in all of Europe, a pioneering project that has been promoted jointly by the City Council and Madrid Futuro, a non-profit consortium made up of more than 100 companies for the economic reactivation of the city after the Covid-19 pandemic.FOOTAGE OF ONE OF THE SHEDS IN MADRID.
Goyang, Apr 2 (EFE).- Seoul seeks solutions to the great mobility challenge faced by the world's major conurbations with trains that reach 180 kilometers per hour while 50 meters underground, a formula which poses complex engineering challenges and will be released in 2023.(Camera: ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ BRAUN)SHOT LIST: GREAT TRAIN EXPRESS (GTX) PROJECT IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. SOUND BITES: KIM CHANG-YONG, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY (KICT): "GTX is going to be a pioneering project in patents and technologies. We believe that the use of great depths will spread in the future in cities. In this way, security protocols, technology, and related intellectual property will improve thanks to to the GTX project."
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has presented an operational management system that will serve as the basis for the provision of different services through its e-Palette battery-electric autonomous vehicle, with Autono-MaaS applications —Autonomous Mobility As A Service—.This new e-Palette application will make possible the mobility services of the future and, thanks to the collaboration with several partners, will allow the deployment of different units of the e-Palette in Woven City, the prototype of Toyota's city of the future, fully connected and sustainable , with a view to its commercial use in multiple areas and regions in the coming years.Proclaiming his purpose to transform Toyota into a mobility company, at CES in Las Vegas in January 2018, TMC President and CEO Akio Toyoda announced the e-Palette as a symbol of mobility that goes beyond conventional vehicles, to offer customers services and added value.
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