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The robots are coming — really
Chad Livengood - FIRST robotics is credited with helping establish a pipeline of young talent that companies such as DTE Energy and Magna Seating are tapping for engineering, problem-solving, team work...
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The robots are coming — really
Chad Livengood - FIRST robotics is credited with helping establish a pipeline of young talent that companies such as DTE Energy and Magna Seating are tapping for engineering, problem-solving, team work...
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Lear's Scott talks strategy, innovation and the future
Lindsay Chappell and Richard TruettAutomotive News - With ride-sharing and self-driving vehicles on the horizon, Ray Scott believes technology and the changing ways cars will be used will require a...
View ArticleStartup uses AI to help customers streamline their supply chains
Tom Henderson - Launching his second startup has been a lot less stressful than the first, says Dilip Dubey, the founder and CEO of Madison Heights-based Xeeva Inc., which uses artificial intelligence...
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Businesses team up with city on mobility test programs
Dustin Walsh - Called the Detroit Mobility Innovation Initiative, a working group of 10 public and private entities identified four key areas of focus to develop six pilot programs to launch in the...
View ArticleMTRAC Innovation Hub awards $177,000 for applied materials projects
Tyler Clifford - The projects were chosen out of 17 proposals from six Michigan universities for their "ability to solve a real-life problem and achieve commercialization."
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Accenture opens innovation center in Livonia, to move regional office to Detroit
Dustin Walsh - The consulting firm also plans to hire 200 more workers in Detroit in the next 2 1/2 years.
View ArticleEmbracing innovation could accelerate progress in philanthropy
Other Voices - Cory Anderson - U.S. foundations gave an estimated $60 billion in 2016, and not one of them can tell you which problem they solved. Each can easily describe a litany of ills requiring...
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Susannah Fox talks health care, innovation and data
Jay Greene - The former CTO for the U.S. health department under the Obama administration will be the keynote speaker at TechTown Detroit's "Fueling Innovative Cross-Sector Collaboration" event Thursday.
View ArticleVenture Investors raising $100 million fund
Tom Henderson - The venture capital firm filed a document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to raise a new fund of $100 million called Venture Investors Health 6 LP.
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Wayne State students develop electronic medical record used by international...
Jay Greene - Developed in 2011, Team fEMR is now used by at least five medical relief organizations to aid continuity of care.
View ArticleMany steps keep autonomous vehicle testing safe
Other Voices - Kirk Steudle and John Peracchio - As the way we get around morphs, we must manage the risks but also consider the massive potential benefits.
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Covering the satellites: Space antenna maker gets offer it can't refuse,...
Tom Henderson - Atlas Space Operations Inc. buys component parts to build its own much cheaper antennas, some of them even portable, and developed its own proprietary software to collect and analyze data.
View ArticleFaurecia investment allows Promethient to ramp up development
Tom Henderson - Promethient Inc., an early stage tech company in Traverse City, landed a large though undisclosed equity investment from Faurecia Ventures.
View ArticleMTRAC Innovation Hub awards $177,000 for applied materials projects
Tyler Clifford - The projects were chosen out of 17 proposals from six Michigan universities for their "ability to solve a real-life problem and achieve commercialization."
View ArticleFaurecia investment allows Promethient to ramp up development
Tom Henderson - Promethient Inc., an early stage tech company in Traverse City, landed a large though undisclosed equity investment from Faurecia Ventures.
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Proton cancer therapy competition beams up
Jay Greene - Beaumont Health's center celebrates its first year with double the number of projected patients as McLaren's prepares to open after a three-year delay.
View ArticleMTRAC Innovation Hub awards $700,000 for advanced transportation projects
Tyler Clifford - The University of Michigan Innovation Hub is backing 10 high-tech products with the potential to get out of the lab and into the market.
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$10 million UM engineering program aims to encourage big, daring ideas
Associated Press - Each team can receive up to $2.5 million over three years in the Blue Sky Initiative, designed to encourage high-risk, high-reward work.
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Accenture to purchase Ann Arbor-based Pillar Technology
Tyler Clifford - The global consulting agency has acquired Pillar Technology in Ohio and Mindtribe in San Francisco as it looks to take a bigger share of the connected products market.
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