ELEY
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ELEY (Embodied Learning robot for Enhanced Yield) is a wheeled partner robot from Toyota, developed by its Frontier Research Center as the successor in spirit to the Human Support Robot (HSR). It has two human-like arms with two-fingered hands that can assemble objects or open a box with one hand while taking items with the other, and like HSR it extends its body from 939 mm to 1,619 mm to pick things off the floor or reach high places. An omnidirectional mobile base lets it drive quickly and autonomously to a target, and the compact 50 kg body is designed to be safe and friendly around people. Toyota first showed it at AICHI ROBOFEST during World Robot Summit 2025 in December 2025. In September 2026 Toyota showed it learning to fold T-shirts from human demonstrations, trained with finger-shaped jigs that workers wear while doing routine tasks.
Quick Overview & Key Facts
ELEY is a humanoid robot made by Toyota in Japan, launched in 2025 and built for assembly-line tasks that need soft, skilled hand movements (such as handling cloth covers and trunk liners), and supporting daily life and working alongside people. Its estimated price is USD 60,000–150,000.
- Dimensions
- Length 478 mm × width 450 mm × height 939–1,619 mm (adjustable)
- Weight
- 50 kg
- Mobility
- Wheeled (omnidirectional mobile base) with extendable body
- Handles
- Not publicly disclosed
- Sensors
- Not publicly disclosed
- Operating environment
- Factories, homes and workplaces alongside people (indoor)
What Can ELEY Do?
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Real-World Applications of ELEY
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ELEY Capabilities
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Toyota shows the partner robot ELEY at AICHI ROBOFEST, the World Robot Summit 2025 side event in Aichi.
Source: Toyota Motor Corporation ↗
Toyota demonstrates ELEY folding T-shirts after learning from human demonstrations at a briefing at its European headquarters.
Source: Automotive World ↗
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Q1. What is ELEY, and what problem is it designed to solve?
ELEY is a wheeled partner robot from Toyota. It has two human-like arms on an extendable body and a mobile base, and it is designed to work safely alongside people.
Q2. What are the main capabilities and key features of ELEY?
It reaches from the floor to high shelves, uses both hands for tasks such as assembling objects or opening a box while taking items, and learns new skills from human demonstrations.
Q3. Who is ELEY built for, and which industries can benefit from it?
Toyota is developing it for its own factories and for supporting daily life and work, where it can take over repetitive, delicate hand tasks next to human colleagues.
Q4. Is ELEY a commercial product or still a research prototype?
It is still being developed. Toyota has shown it at events and demonstrations, but it is not sold to the public.
Q5. Is ELEY currently available for purchase, and when is it expected to ship?
ELEY is not on sale and Toyota has not announced a price. Reports describe plans to use robots in Toyota factories from 2028, but Toyota has not confirmed ELEY-specific deployment numbers.
Q6. How does ELEY actually work in real-world environments?
Workers wear finger-shaped tools while doing routine tasks, and the robot learns from these demonstrations with large behavior models, so one robot learning a skill can pass it on to others.
Q7. When was ELEY announced or officially launched?
Toyota first showed ELEY in December 2025 at AICHI ROBOFEST and demonstrated T-shirt folding in September 2026.
Q8. How is ELEY different from other robots in the same category?
Unlike walking humanoids, ELEY drives on wheels and extends its body, which gives it a stable, compact and safe platform for factory and home tasks.
Q9. Does ELEY require additional development or customization after purchase?
Toyota says the main gaps are reliability over long working periods, repeatable precision and the data systems needed for robot learning.
Q10. What is the future roadmap or planned upgrades for ELEY?
Toyota plans to keep developing ELEY and its learning methods, and reports describe a wider robot rollout in its factories starting around 2028.
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