Toyota's humanoid contender gets a name and specs — and Honda joins it in Japanese factory trials
From the Robots digest for Oct 26, 2026
What happened: Shattered runs a roundup of Toyota's humanoid push against Tesla and Chinese makers, centering the T-HR3 and separating what the platform confirms — 32 joints, a 100 km operational range — from the claims it says remain unverified. Beside it, Seeking Alpha, citing Automotive News, reports Toyota and Honda are testing humanoid robots in Japanese factories on tasks ranging from wire-harness installation to final inspection.
What's genuinely new: named model and specifications for Toyota's humanoid program — 32 joints and a 100 km operational range — plus the first named real-world factory tasks for the company's automation bet, with Honda now a named parallel tester alongside Toyota.
Watch: independent verification of the 100 km range figure, which Japanese plants host the Toyota and Honda trials and how the machines' task performance measures against human workers, and what share of Toyota's 400,000-robot program target the humanoid line represents.
Sources Shattered Seeking Alpha