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Machina Labs and Toyota begin pilot for customised automotive body panels

Sep 30, 2025 · Partnership · Machina Labs · Industrial

Machina Labs announced a Toyota Motor North America pilot applying RoboForming to customised production body panels, alongside a strategic investment from Woven Capital.

  • 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.

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.

Segment
Industrial
Event type
Partnership
Added to Korthos
Jul 15, 2026
Geography
Los Angeles, California · United States