{"id":33678,"date":"2017-01-20T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/combining-automation-and-mobility-to-create-a-smarter-world"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:47","slug":"combining-automation-and-mobility-to-create-a-smarter-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/combining-automation-and-mobility-to-create-a-smarter-world","title":{"rendered":"Combining automation and mobility to create a smarter world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSm027Rzj9E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielarus.csail.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Daniela Rus<\/a> loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk about her research conducted in Singapore, her face starts to relax in a big smile.<\/p>\n<p>Her story with Singapore started in the summer of 2010, when she made her first visit to one of the most futuristic and forward-looking cities in the world. \u201cIt was love at first sight,\u201d says the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Computer Science and the director of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).<\/a> That summer, she came to Singapore to join the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) as the first principal investigator in residence for the Future of Urban Mobility Research Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2010, nobody was talking about autonomous driving. We were pioneers in developing and deploying the first mobility on demand for people with self-driving golf buggies,\u201d says Rus. \u201cAnd look where we stand today! Every single car maker is investing millions of dollars to advance autonomous driving. Singapore did not hesitate to provide us, at an early stage, with all the financial, logistical, and transportation resources to facilitate our work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/robohub.org\/combining-automation-and-mobility-to-create-a-smarter-world\/\">http:\/\/robohub.org\/combining-automation-and-mobility-to-create-a-smarter-world\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk about her research conducted in Singapore, her face starts to relax in a big smile. Her story with Singapore started in the summer of 2010, when she made her first visit to one of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59044,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions\/59044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}