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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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Toyota Research Institute invests $22M in research on AI, robotics and autonomous driving at University of Michigan

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We will also focus on expanding the benefit of mobility technology to in-home support of older persons and those with special needs. TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. —Gil Pratt. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. They were former students, colleagues, and friends.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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