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Toyota plans research hub for autonomous vehicles in Michigan

April 8, 2016

Toyota’s in-house r&d division is setting up shop in Michigan.

The Toyota Research Institute said Thursday that it will open an “autonomous vehicle research base” in Ann Arbor, Mich., in conjunction with the University of Michigan.

It’s Toyota’s third such facility in the U.S. tied to elite universities specializing in artificial intelligence and self-driving vehicles: TRI already has centers with MIT in Cambridge, Mass., and Silicon Valley with Stanford University.

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