Toyota Creates $1B AI, Robotics Institute in US

http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/toyota-creates-$1-billion-ai-robotics-institute-in-us/d/d-id/1323040

• "To be called: Toyota Research Institute (TRI)"
• "...headquarters near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California"
• "A second location is planned near MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts"
• "...begin operations in Jan. 2016, and plans to hire 200 staff members"
• "AI and robotics research institute headed by former DARPA project manager and MIT professor Gill Pratt"