COMPANY｜TOYOTA CENTRAL R&D LABS.,INC RECRUIT SIT

Look beyond the automobile-related industries and work for the community and for the world.

Our research spanning a broad range of fields supports the current and future business activities of the Toyota Group. At the same time, we investigate global technological trends and tackling the challenges posed by new scientific fields in order to propose visions that lead to new business opportunities and contribute to the development of science and technology, as well as industry.

めざすはひとつ先、さらに上。

At Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., our aim is to make discoveries and create the technologies for an unpredictable future. The Core Technology Division and the Strategic Research Division are facing up to a wide range of challenges.

要素研究部門

Electrification: We are researching technologies to help reduce the size and to improve the efficiency and reliability of EVs and PHVs as well as to comprehensively improve performance.

Mass Management: We are proposing new ways of combining manufacturing processes and lightweight materials from the structural design phase to help realize ultra-lightweight, safe, comfortable, and low-cost vehicles.

Energy Management and CO₂ Zero Emission: We are researching ways of eliminating CO₂ emissions through the use of alternative energies, and of reducing the CO₂ emitted by production and other processes during manufacturing.

Intelligent Mobility: We are endeavoring to achieve safe and comfortable automated driving in all circumstances by merging sensor, recognition, decision-making, control and other technologies from multiple fields.

Batteries and Fuel Cell: We are researching the efficient use of energy spanning everything from motor systems for hybrid, electric, and fuel cell vehicles to new materials for batteries and fuel cells and innovative manufacturing processes.

Powertrains: In addition to refinements of engines, drivetrains and catalysts that make combustion gases non-harmful, we are developing new mechanisms and functions of these elements of vehicles.

戦略研究部門

Data Analytics Research: We are researching the foundations of data science such as learning and inference systems that form the core of AI. We envision a variety of applications beyond automated driving for this research.

Human Science: We are researching human models capable of feeling, thinking, and moving, with the aim of enhancing comfort and health, which are two of the foundations of human happiness.

Materials Informatics Research: We are applying the new method of materials informatics in the material development process to enable the creation of material structures starting from the required characteristics.

Social Systems Research: We are looking inside and outside the automotive industry to consider what society will need in the future and how we can live happier and more productive lives.

Bioinspired Systems Research: We are striving to create new bioinspired engineering systems using the power of data to analyze the dynamics behind the growth, adaptation, and evolution of living creatures.

Strategic Innovative Research and Frontier Research: Researchers propose and lead their own research. We are promoting the individual research projects that will become the mainstream of research at TCRDL in the future.