Former DARPA manager working with Toyota's autonomous division says "it's going to be a big deal"

09/14/2015 - 15:06

Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman


At a DARPA Robotics Challenge press conference earlier this year, Gill Pratt was asked about his post-DARPA plans. He politely declined to comment, saying he couldn’t discuss it at that point. There was speculation that Google, Apple, Uber, or other tech giant interested in robotics would try to lure him, and they probably did.

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