{"id":16923,"date":"2015-09-04T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T02:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/toyota-pledges-50m-to-research-ai-for-autonomous-vehicles-hires-darpas-dr-gill-pratt"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:43:17","slug":"toyota-pledges-50m-to-research-ai-for-autonomous-vehicles-hires-darpas-dr-gill-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/toyota-pledges-50m-to-research-ai-for-autonomous-vehicles-hires-darpas-dr-gill-pratt","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Pledges $50M To Research AI For Autonomous Vehicles, Hires DARPA\u2019s Dr. Gill Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGMk4SdLGjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/artificial-intelligence\/toyota-announces-major-push-into-ai-and-robotics\">Toyota announced<\/a> that it has hired Gill Pratt to drive its autonomous car research. Pratt is best known in this field for his work at DARPA and MIT, including starting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theroboticschallenge.org\/\">Robotics Challenge<\/a>. The company is also investing $50 million in the research over the next five years as well as partnering with MIT and Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has spent the past five years with DARPA, and laid out what\u2019s important for Toyota at an event in Palo Alto today: \u201cOur long-term goal is to make a car that is never responsible for a crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/4\/9261841\/toyota-mit-stanford-robotics-darpa-gill-pratt\">serve as Toyota\u2019s \u201cExecutive Technical Advisor\u201d<\/a> on the research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/09\/04\/toyota-pledges-50m-to-research-ai-for-autonomous-vehicles-hires-darpas-dr-gill-pratt\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Toyota announced that it has hired Gill Pratt to drive its autonomous car research. Pratt is best known in this field for his work at DARPA and MIT, including starting the Robotics Challenge. The company is also investing $50 million in the research over the next five years as well as partnering with MIT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64299,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions\/64299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}