Toyota fills the rosters for its $1 billion AI, robotics research team

LAS VEGAS — Toyota made known last November that it would spend $1 billion to found the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) charged with researching both artificial intelligence (AI) as well as robotics. Now, at 2016 International CES, the world's largest carmaker announced it has filled the positions on its bi-costal team.

With two research centers, each a 10-minute bicycle's ride from MIT and Stanford respectively, the TRI will get cracking to "enhance the safety of automobiles, with the ultimate goal of creating a car that cannot be responsible for a collision," according to Toyota Read more...