Partnership
May Mobility - Toyota (Sienna AV / next-gen platform)
May Mobility partnered with Toyota to build its autonomous driving kit onto the Toyota Sienna (the ADA-compliant Sienna Autono-MaaS) and to begin development on Toyota's next-generation mobility platform; Toyota Ventures and Toyota Tsusho are investors. (month-precision: 2022)
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- development
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2022-06-014.2 years ago
- Active for
- 4.2 years
Who’s involved
May Mobility is an autonomous-shuttle / microtransit company running driverless public AV services (autonomous [Toyota](/companies/toyota-industries) Sienna minivans). Founded in 2017 and anchored by strategic backer Toyota.
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Toyota Motor Corporation is the world's largest automotive manufacturer by global sales and one of the first major automotive operators to sign a commercial Robots-as-a-Service agreement for humanoid robots in North American vehicle production. In February 2026, following a year-long pilot at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) in Woodstock, Ontario, Toyota signed a commercial RaaS agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy seven Digit humanoid robots at its RAV4 assembly plant. Toyota's broader physical-AI footprint includes the [Toyota research institute](/companies/tri-robotics) (TRI) which conducts foundational robotics research, ongoing autonomous vehicle development through the Woven by Toyota subsidiary, and integration of multiple automation systems across its global production network. TMMC is Toyota Motor Corporation's largest manufacturing operation outside of Japan, producing more than 535,000 vehicles in 2025 and employing over 8,500 people. Toyota's editorial significance is its rigor of evaluation. The TMMC humanoid deployment followed a year-long structured pilot with strict performance criteria, the kind of evaluation that reflects the legendary Toyota Production System discipline applied to humanoid integration. Where some operators move from announcement to deployment quickly, Toyota's pace is slower but more methodical: the year-long pilot, the explicit "after evaluating a number of robots" language in the TMMC announcement, and the multi-vehicle commercial-deployment scaling reflect Toyota's commitment to humanoid integration as a Toyota Production System extension rather than as a press cycle.
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