Tag: toyota
Mapillary open sources 25k street-level images to train automotive AI
As more companies wade into the business of building artificial intelligence systems to help you drive (or do the driving for you), a startup founded...
Why Toyota Is Taking Its Own Road to Self-Driving Cars
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has a brand-new self-driving test vehicle -- and it's designed to help the company develop two different approaches to advanced safety technology,...
Make a friend with Kirobo, Toyota’s talking mini robot
Lonely at the wheel? Toyota wants to sell you a talking robot to keep you company.
Small enough to fit in the cup holder of...
University of Michigan gets 22M from Toyota for AI Studies
Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a Toyota R&D organization headquartered in Silicon Valley, is providing $22 million over four years in an initial research grant with the University of...
Will GM Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car with the help...
Kyle Vogt couldn't do anything to help his dustpan-shaped battlebot Decimator as it took a saw blade to the belly. The CO2 tank powering its primary weapon ruptured,...
AI’s Language Problem
About halfway through a particularly tense game of Go held in Seoul, South Korea, between Lee Sedol, one of the best players of all...
Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semi-autonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers and...
Tesla & Google Take Different Roads to Self-Driving Car
In Silicon Valley, where companies big and small are at work on self-driving cars, there have been a variety of approaches, and even some...
Toyota’s US Robotics Promises Results Within 5 Years
The U.S. robotics expert tapped to head Toyota's Silicon Valley research company says the $1 billion investment by the giant Japanese automaker will start...
Toyota and Uber announce strategic partnership
Toyota and Uber are forming a "strategic partnership" which will include an investment by the Japanese automaker in the San Francisco-based ride-sharing company. Under...