Uber’s partnership with Carnegie Mellon University‘s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is taking an unusually high number of people from the university labs to the team supposedly working on self-driving cars at Uber’s Advanced Technology Center. The Verge reports that about 50 employees have shifted from Carnegie Mellon to Uber’s lab down the road.
An unidentified source from NREC described the work inside the Uber facility as “very incestuous and loose,” with no concerns about whether the intellectual property they are handling belongs to CMU or to Uber. If they are, as rumored, working on a self-driving car, ownership may need to be sorted out after it hits the road.
Uber poached a load of staff from Carnegie Mellon to help it make self-driving cars
The world of self-driving cars is getting pretty competitive. Meanwhile, Uber made its play by attracting staff from Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics department, a report from The Verge says. People – mainly software developers at first – started leaving CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Centre (NREC) back in January …
