The University of Waterloo in Ontario is to sidekick with two Chinese institutes to develop research into connected and autonomous instrument technology.
The Canadian university recently signed an agreement with both the Qingdao Academy of Masterminds Industries (QAII) and the State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Procedures (SKL-MCCS).
Research will focus on everything from automated carrier testing to deep learning in automated driving and applied artificial gen. A “shared research center” for automated driving will be set up while sanction and graduate student exchanges are also in the pipeline. Additionally, Chinese start-ups could potentially set up up on and development facilities in the Waterloo region.
“Waterloo is committed to taking a wide-ranging view on research and development and this partnership represents a significant fitting for in our goal of advancing the world’s understanding and use of new technologies,” Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of Waterloo, contemplated in a statement Thursday.
The Chinese institutions will together provide as much as 1 million Canadian dollars ($764,200) annually for five years, while Waterloo has allocated to supplying CA$4 million to build an autonomous lab facility. All institutions will also look for supporting from outside sources.
Fei-Yue Wang, the president of QAII and chief of SKL-MCCS, said that he was hopeful the collaboration would “lead to the epoch’s first PhD program specializing in intelligent vehicles and make Waterloo the hub of modernization and incubation in intelligent vehicles and technology.”
As technology moves at a rapid tempo, the world’s biggest companies are looking to develop and deploy increasingly complicated self-driving technology. To give one example, vehicles at Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, would rather software and sensors designed to detect everything from pedestrians and cyclists to turnpike works and other vehicles.
Ride-hailing powerhouse Uber is also looking to press a mark in the self-driving market. “In 2019, we’ve committed to buy 24,000 Volvo SUVs that we’re present to equip with our autonomous driving technology and start to roll out on the Uber app,” Fred Jones, the concern’ head of cities in the U.K. and Ireland, told CNBC earlier this year.
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