Toyota Spending $1 Billion on Robotics, Self-Driving Cars with MIT and Stanford
Toyota Spending $1 Billion on Robotics, Self-Driving Cars with MIT and Stanford
Lexus sedans can automatically switch lanes and Toyota robots play trumpets and baritone horns in company quartets. “Child’s play,” Toyota’s board of directors said, “bring us more robots, smarter artificial intelligence, and knock on the brightest doors of Stanford and MIT.” The result: Toyota will commit more than $1 billion to new research in Palo Alto, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, two cities with some of the world’s brainiest scientists, to automate our lives ever further.
As for the home-care robots, Toyota wants to move into the mobility market, including motorized assists for people with paralysis and machines to lift patients onto beds.
At the helm is Dr. Gill Pratt, an electrical engineer, computer scientist, and former MIT professor who was program manager at the U.S. military’s DARPA project, which is advancing robotics and self-driving vehicles for next-gen combat. He’ll start with Toyota’s roughly 200-strong team on both coasts this January.
Since this is Toyota, we’ll bet safety and conservatism will be top of mind, even in the liberal, risk-it-all chambers of Silicon Valley and Cambridge. After all, we can’t deal with A.I. uprisings and cars that refuse to take us to McDonald’s.
(source: caranddriver.com)
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