TOYOTA CONNECT
INVESTING IN ALBERT ALBERT could soon become
an important part of automated driving
No, ALBERT’s not the new engineering advisor at Toyota headquarters. It’s an entire company bristling with
data scientists and Toyota’s investing 400 million yen in them to improve automated driving technology.
ALBERT’s expanding into imagery analysis, which Toyota hopes will
strengthen the data analysis processes that lie behind its own emerging artificial intelligence technologies.
TO CREATE THE FUTURE If you’re a software genius looking for a change of pace and scenery, how about a job with Toyota Research Institute’s Advanced Development (TRI-AD’s) division?
WANTED – ENGINEERS
The company’s actively seeking software engineers fluent in English to work in a new state-of-the-art facility in Tokyo. TRI-AD’s mission is to use cutting-
edge artificial intelligence to produce automated driving products. “Cars of the future will become more software than hardware,” says its CEO, Dr James Kuffner. “With automated driving software, we’re talking about many millions of lines of code which require an incredibly high level of robustness and reliability.” TRI-AD will recruit more than 1 000
employees globally, skilled in computer science, computer vision and 3D perception, artificial intelligence and machine learning, automated driving systems architecture, advanced safety systems and software, or business development. For details, visit:
www.tri-ad.global
PEDAL TO THE METAL FOR FCEV PRODUCTION As diesel vehicles fall from grace, sales of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) could
take their place
While only 3 000 such vehicles have been sold so far each year, Toyota’s gearing up for a 10-fold increase after 2020. To cope with expected demand, it’s announced a new production centre to expand its fuel cell stack output and a new line in an existing plant to manufacture high-pressure hydrogen tanks. The FC stack is what generates the on-board electricity from hydrogen and oxygen to
propel the vehicles, while the tanks store the hydrogen fuel and are made of extra-thick carbon fibre to withstand major impacts. Large-scale manufacturing of both components is crucial for lowering the costs and creating wider availability.
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