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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) Home robots may be even more personally prized in our future than cars have been in our past.

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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. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time. TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. —Gil Pratt.

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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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As part of CSRC Next, the ECG data collected from in-hospital and in-vehicle subjects will be trained with machine learning models to detect and predict the in-vehicle occurrence of cardiac events. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. Then you are part of a community.” 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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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Several research articles he came across said it was impossible to create such a machine because it would be unable to print motors and other electronic parts. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.".

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