Toyota Industries invests in Gideon for automated vehicle systems

Toyota Industries Corporation invests in Gideon

ZAGREB — Toyota Industries (TICO), including Toyota Material Handling Group and Toyota Automated Logistics Group, signs an investment agreement with Gideon.

The technology company Gideon develops and offers technologies for Autonomous Mobile Robotics (AMR) behaviour and application stack for automating specific processes in warehouse and manufacturing environments.

TICO’s senior executive officer Norio Wakabayashi said, “Gideon has developed impressive vision modules enabling flexible, intelligent autonomous behaviour and user and deployment friendliness that will provide added value for our customers in the coming years. This investment underlines our commitment to delivering market leading mobile automation.”

For TICO, this partnership and investment create possibilities to simplify automated vehicle systems through standardization, reduced deployment times and increasing flexibility, adaptability and scalability. TICO’s global autonomous vehicle software house, T-Hive, will apply and leverage Gideon’s technology within specific areas of TICO’s global automated vehicle portfolio.

Trailer unloading and loading, as well as collaborative case picking for retail order fulfillment, are examples of specific applications that Gideon currently offers to its customers.

For Gideon, the investment allows the company to benefit from Toyota’s manufacturing expertise, market access and global service network.

Gideon CEO Josip Ćesić said, “Toyota’s legacy in lean manufacturing practices, driven by quality, innovation, and sustainability, underpins their expertise with both manual and automated material handling equipment. Their manufacturing capacity, coupled with global sales and service network, combined with Gideon’s autonomy and application technology, creates a groundbreaking value proposition for the warehouse and manufacturing automation sector.”