"UW-Madison Chancellor: Foxconn interested in our research on AI, automated vehicles"

From The Journal Times.com:

MARK SOMMERHAUSER Lee Newspapers14 hrs ago

MADISON — Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn is interested in UW-Madison research that includes artificial intelligence and automated vehicles, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday.

Blank’s remarks came at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Blank told Regents the university is “in a number of conversations, for instance, with Foxconn about potential research partnerships.”

“They’re interested in our work on artificial intelligence,” Blank said. Other areas of interest for the company include “our research and development on automated vehicles and our world-class cancer research.”

Blank’s remarks were the latest indication the economic ripple from Foxconn may reach the Madison area.

Aided by public incentives that could top $4 billion, Foxconn is developing a massive campus to manufacture ultra-high-definition display screens in Mount Pleasant as part of a plan the company has said could eventually employ as many as 13,000 workers in Wisconsin.

Earlier this week, the company announced it will have a corporate North American headquarters in downtown Milwaukee.

Foxconn has said it may open a medical manufacturing facility in Wisconsin too, and that the Madison area is a potential location for it.

Foxconn leaders previously met with officials at UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center.

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Damn.  Where's the flying cars?