Mcity in Ann Arbor has added Chinese LiDar developer RoboSense, which has its North American headquarters in Plymouth Township, to its membership roster.
Mcity is a public-private mobility research center led by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It brings together diverse expertise and resources to develop mobility technologies and to explore their commercial and economic viability.
By joining Mcity, RoboSense aligns itself with Mcity’s members and government partners, including Toyota, Ford Motor Co., Honda, Denso, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Becoming a member of the Mcity allows RoboSense to be in the forefront of technological advancements within the mobility sector. RoboSense will contribute its M Platform sensors and ground truth software for research and development at Mcity.
The company’s technology will be installed on a Ford Mustang Mach-E to expand the data collection capabilities inside the Mcity test facility and on-road in the city of Ann Arbor.
Additionally, RoboSense will provide experiential learning opportunities for students through the University of Michigan’s Perot Jain TechLab at Mcity, a start-up-in-residence program. TechLab has provided hands-on experience for hundreds of U-M students and attracted dozens of startups to Southeast Michigan,
“Partnering with RoboSense enables Mcity to stay innovative, adaptive, and on top of the latest technological advancements in the ever-evolving field of transportation,” says Henry Liu, director of Mcity and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan. “We’ll now have two ways to approach data collection: The always-on, broad network of infrastructure-based sensors already deployed in Ann Arbor, and the much more targeted capability of RoboSense’s vehicle-mounted, lidar-based perception system.”
