How Uber Turned Carnegie Mellon Into a Minor Nursery For Its Research Division (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:22PM from the he-who-pays-the-piper dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A year after Uber announced a collaboration with the Robotics Department of Carnegie Mellon University, not a single project has been developed. The ride-sharing company set up its Advanced Technologies Center on CMU's doorstep in 2015 and promptly 'compensated' the poaching of 40 of the University's best talent with a $5.5 million grant, leaving CMU with a staff crisis. The university is taking the appropriation philosophically, and considering the relationship as symbiotic. In the meantime Uber is rapidly co-opting Carnegie Mellon into a feeding ground for its own labs, moving a great deal of robotics research out of academic transparency into the realm of jealously-guarded corporate secrets.

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Where do you think it was before? by 0100010001010011 · 2016-03-21 14:30 · Score: 4, Insightful

out of academic transparency

See all of those corporate logos all over Red Team's vehicles? Do you really think CMU published the coolest stuff they developed?
https://www.fastcompany.com/10...
http://www.equipmentworld.com/...
https://www.saic.com/
https://www.tttech.com/

jealously-guarded corporate secrets.
Patents are anything but that. In fact they tell the world exactly how you do something.