Headquartered in Toyota, Japan, Toyota Motor is the largest automotive manufacturer. In 2018, The company invested $4 billion in a robotics and AI research institute to create safer vehicles, as well as launched a $2.8 Billion dollar Self-Driving Car Company called Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development with automotive suppliers Aisin Seiki and Denso. The company made several partnerships in 2019, including with Chinese technology firm Cogobuy to build a Smart Car Ecosystem in the hopes of turning the company from manufacturing-oriented to intelligence-oriented. Additionally, Denso and Toyota have agreed to establish a joint venture for research and advanced development of next-generation, in-vehicle semiconductors, with a focus on components such as periphery monitoring sensors. In 2017, Toyota and tier-1 suppliers, Dentsu and Renesas, announced an alliance for developing advanced systems for an autonomous vehicle. The announcement said that Renesas would supply its new R-CAR super chip, which Cortica's AI technology was installed, to Toyota.
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