It is an approximately 140,000-square-foot building on Hayward Street, east of the university's Space Research Building. Ten years into the Ford-University of Michigan Innovation Alliance, the two parties have agreedįord will lease the fourth floor of the new robotics laboratory. "We are aiming to show the world what we can achieve when leaders in business and academia work together to make people's lives better." "Ford engineers and researchers will begin working shoulder-to-shoulder with U-M faculty and students to test and learn about autonomous vehicle technology and innovation," said Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO. Autonomous vehicles are part of Ford's expansion to be an auto and a mobility company.
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The announcement is the latest in a series of actions by Ford as it moves toward having fully autonomous SAE-defined level 4-capable vehicles available for high-volume commercial use in 2021. While the new robotics laboratory opens in 2020, by the end of this year Ford will move a dozen researchers into the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC).
Ford and the University of Michigan today announce they are teaming up to accelerate autonomous vehicle research and development with a first-ever arrangement that embeds Ford researchers and engineers into a new state-of-the-art robotics laboratory on U-M's Ann Arbor campus.
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