Latest to Quit Googles Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
Latest to Quit Googles Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
SAN FRANCISCO A roboticist and crucial member of the team that created Googles self-driving car is leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures by important technologists working on the autonomous car project.Chris Urmson, a Carnegie Mellon University research scientist, joined Google in 2009 to help create the then-secret effort. He took over leadership of the team after Sebastian Thrun, the Stanford computer scientist and founder of Google X laboratory, left in 2013.Johnny Luu, a spokesman for Alphabet, the parent company of X, the companys research division that oversees the car project, confirmed Mr. Urmson was planning to leave.
Källa: Latest to Quit Googles Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist – The New York Times
