Toyota Research Institute · self-driving bus or shuttle
e-Palette
Tokyo 2020 version
A boxy battery-electric people mover first shown as a concept at CES 2018; a 20-passenger version shuttled people around the Tokyo athletes' villages.
- Price
- —Price not published
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
A retired vehicle from Toyota.
Real-world use
Carried athletes and staff in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic villages in 2021; service paused on 27 August 2021 after hitting a Paralympic athlete and resumed on 31 August.
Maker
Toyota Research InstituteCompany · founded 2016 · Los Altos, California, United StatesToyota subsidiary; launched with $1 billion over five years.
How it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Tokyo (Olympic and Paralympic villages, 2021)
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
e-Palette (Tokyo 2020 version) is the only vehicle from Toyota in the atlas.
Toyota Research Institute also makes 11 humanoids and 1 machine. See every Toyota Research Institute robot
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPrice not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | e-Palette (Tokyo 2020 version)Toyota |  HEAT shuttle (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation)IAVSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Olli 2.0Local MotorsSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Enviro200AV (CAVForth)Alexander Dennis with Fusion ProcessingSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 2018-01 | 2019-07-31 | 2019-09 | 2019-03-18 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Discontinued | Retired |
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| Speed | — | 25 km/h | 40 km/h | — |
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Sources
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