The Toyota Motor Corporation is investing $50 million with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to accelerate the development intelligent vehicle technologies.
The automaker will use the investment over the next five years to establish joint research facilities at each university with the hopes of building out vehicle-based artificial intelligence and robotics in a way that will make automobiles safer to drive.
Additionally, Toyota has hired Gill Pratt, a leading roboticist and the former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to oversee the project.
