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Toyota hires robotics expert Gill Pratt for AI push | Financial Times
Toyota has hired the top robotics expert from the US defence department’s research arm and promised $50m in extra funding for artificial intelligence research, as it steps up the race between the world’s biggest carmakers to pioneer new forms of…
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