Daily Archives: September 4, 2015


+TOYOTA announces a 5-year, $50M AI development program with MIT and Stanford

There is a lot of work to do in helping automated vehicles both perceive their surroundings accurately and coexist with human drivers. Toyota is bringing in the big brains to help out with machine learning.

Toyota Launches $50M Artificial Intelligence Collaboration with MIT and Stanford
At a press conference in Palo Alto, California today, Toyota announced a new collaborative research program that will focus on development of artificial intelligence and automation control systems….


Toyota Launches $50M Artificial Intelligence Collaboration with MIT and Stanford

Dr Gill Pratt - Executive Technical Advisor, Toyota

Dr Gill Pratt – Executive Technical Advisor, Toyota

At a press conference in Palo Alto, California today, Toyota announced a new collaborative research program that will focus on development of artificial intelligence and automation control systems. Under the auspices of Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), the $50 million development program will pull in researchers from Toyota, Stanford University and MIT to help develop the systems that will be required to power increasingly autonomous cars. The effort will be led by Dr. Gill Pratt who is joining Toyota as an executive technical advisor. Pratt previously served as the program manager for the DARPA robotics challenge which brought the world the “big dog” robot from Boston Dynamics.

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