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Watch: Why Toyota Made a Tiny Robot to Sit With Japanese Drivers
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As Japan’s population plunged, Toyota figured out what product drivers really needed: a friend.
Nathan Place
Published
Oct. 6 2016
1:58PM EDT
Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty
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