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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 10 2015, @06:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the bring-on-the-smart-people dept.

Today in Tokyo, Toyota announced that it is investing US $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new R&D arm headquartered in Silicon Valley and focused on artificial intelligence and robotics. The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) plans to hire hundreds of engineers to staff a main facility in Palo Alto, Calif., near Stanford University, and a second facility located near MIT in Cambridge, Mass.

Former DARPA program manager Dr. Gill Pratt, an executive technical advisor at Toyota, was named CEO of TRI, which will begin operations in January. Toyota president Akio Toyoda said in a press conference that the company pursues innovation and new technologies "to make life better for our customers and society as a whole," adding that he wanted to "work with Gill not just because he's an amazing researcher and engineer, but because I believe his goals and motivations are the same as ours."

West Coast Soylentils, time to burnish those resumes.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:25PM (#261438)

    They go there for the same reason thieves go to bank. All the major tech companies from around the world has some presence there.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:33PM (#261441)

    Did they reject you? Is that why you call them thieves?