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Toyota Group holds Pavillon Opening Ceremony for Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan

New technologies and possibilities for mobility

Tokyo - The Toyota Group held a purification and opening ceremony for the TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION at the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan as construction of the Pavilion and preparation for the performance to be held inside have been completed.

The TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION, located in the Nagakute Area of the EXPO, features an exhibition theme of "The Dream, Joy and Inspiration of Mobility in the 21st Century." It will be open during the 185 days of the EXPO, beginning March 25.

The Pavilion is built and operated as a "Natural-Cycle Earth Pavilion," which is structured after the earth's own mechanisms of regeneration. The building is made with a steel frame that can be disassembled and reused, and the walls are made with renewable materials: recycled paper in the exterior walls and kenaf in part of the interior walls. In addition, energy to run the Pavilion will be provided by wind power. The amount of energy used by the Pavilion during the EXPO will be provided by a wind power generator constructed outside EXPO grounds in order to reduce CO2 emissions to zero.

A Welcome Show and a Main Show will be staged in the Main Theater of the Pavilion in a lively, approximately 30 minute performance. In the Welcome Show, a band called "CONCERO", made up of Toyota Partner Robots, will open the show, followed by a rap performance by the DJ robot. In the Main Show, the single passenger "i-unit" concept vehicles and the mountable, walking robot "i-foot", together with dancers and other performers, put on a mobility performance show in the midst of a 360 degree large screen which surrounds the audience.

Toyota Group will display many of its environmental technologies in the Techno Seeds Garden of the Approach Area, which has been made into a pleasant environment with flowers, rooftop greenery and mist machines. In the Technology Exhibition Area of the Exit Zone, Toyota Group presents an i-unit Showcase with video footage of i-units in motion, and innovative power sources of the near future, robot technology and the advanced elemental technology in the Techno Gallery.

(18.03.2005)