Event
Machina Labs and Toyota begin pilot for customised automotive body panels
Machina Labs announced a Toyota Motor North America pilot applying RoboForming to customised production body panels, alongside a strategic investment from Woven Capital.
Evidence notes
- The pilot was unveiled at UP.Summit 2025 using a customised Toyota Tacoma tailgate.
- The work targets automotive-grade quality and throughput for low-volume body-panel production.
- Woven Capital, Toyota’s growth-stage venture arm, made a strategic investment alongside the pilot.
Company context
Machina Labs builds and operates software-defined factories for production-grade metal structures used in defence, aerospace and advanced mobility. Its RoboCraftsman cells combine seven-axis robotics, autonomous material handling and closed-loop AI controls to form, scan, trim, drill and increasingly join large sheet-metal parts without geometry-specific tooling. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Context
- Company
- Machina Labs
- Segment
- Industrial
- Event type
- Partnership
- Added to Korthos
- Jul 15, 2026
- Geography
- Los Angeles, California · United States