Partnerships with MIT, Stanford, Columbia, and others address some of the world’s greatest challenges, including aging society, climate change, and human understanding LOS ALTOS, Calif. (May 15, 2023) – Toyota Research Institute (TRI) today announced the latest results of its collaborative research program with U.S. academic institutions.
Rob Felt, Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of 16 academic institutions selected for Toyota Research Institute s (TRI) collaborative research program.
Founded in 2015 and now in its second wave of investment with top universities, TRI will invest more than $75 million over the next five years. The university partners will focus on breakthroughs around tough technological challenges in key research priority areas of automated driving, robotics, and machine-assisted cognition. Georgia Tech is honored to work closely with TRI to advance robotics in key fields. It s an exciting start to what we hope will be a longer-term collaboration, said Seth Hutchinson, executive director of Georgia Tech s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in the School of Interactive Computing.