Toyota announces AI research collaboration with MIT, Stanford
- 9 years ago
All autonomous vehicles built so far rely on programming to make decisions.
If engineers did not write software for a given scenario, the car simply does not know what to do.
One possible solution is developing artificial intelligence capabilities for future robot cars, and at a press conference in Palo Alto today, Toyota said it will take the first steps to develop that.
The Japanese carmaker will invest $50 million over the next five years to establish joint research centers at MIT and Stanford.
Researchers will work to develop artificially-intelligent systems and investigate how they can be applied to future self-driving cars.
The combined research effort will focus on improving the ability of vehicles to recognize objects in different environments, provide "elevated judgment" of conditions, and safely interact with other vehicles and pedestrians, said Dr. Gill Pratt, who recently joined Toyota to head up the research project.
If engineers did not write software for a given scenario, the car simply does not know what to do.
One possible solution is developing artificial intelligence capabilities for future robot cars, and at a press conference in Palo Alto today, Toyota said it will take the first steps to develop that.
The Japanese carmaker will invest $50 million over the next five years to establish joint research centers at MIT and Stanford.
Researchers will work to develop artificially-intelligent systems and investigate how they can be applied to future self-driving cars.
The combined research effort will focus on improving the ability of vehicles to recognize objects in different environments, provide "elevated judgment" of conditions, and safely interact with other vehicles and pedestrians, said Dr. Gill Pratt, who recently joined Toyota to head up the research project.