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How much R&D to allocate? Where should efforts be concentrated? In this section, IW will highlight companies who have made these hard choices.

How Nissan's Eporo Robot Car Came to Be
Nissan again looks to nature to help solve driving challenges.

Last year bumblebees inspired Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.'s robot car concepts. This year it's fish.

The Japanese automotive manufacturer debuted its Eporo robot car concept in October at Ceatec Japan, an annual exhibition showcasing electronic and information technologies. The Eporo robot car, explains Nissan, is designed to travel in a group of like-vehicles, "mimicking the behavioral patterns of a school of fish in avoiding obstacles without colliding with each other."

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Research / Development Articles & News

GE Appoints Tech Center Leader

Current CIO for corporate information services takes helm of advanced manufacturing center

11/19/2009

Benchmarking R&D

Top innovators increased their research-and-development spending even as the economy sank.

11/3/2009

Labor Department Provides $55 Million in Green Jobs Grants

Funds target training initiatives for minorities and other underserved groups

11/18/2009

Grant Money Available to Wisconsin Manufacturers

Funds can be used for lean implementations and product-development processes

11/16/2009

SAE International to Create Vehicle Battery Standards

The new SAE Vehicle Battery Standards Committee will initially focus on standardizing battery performance and safety and will assure harmonization with other standards development in the U.S. and around the world.

11/13/2009

PPG Receives Wind-Development Grant

Company partners with MAG to explore wind-blade materials

11/13/2009

ITN Energy Systems Awarded Grant From U.S. Department of Energy

The funding will help develop a solid-state electrochromic film on plastic substrates to reduce the cost of electrically controlled smart windows for net-zero energy buildings.

11/10/2009

Life Technologies to Buy Biotech Firm

Acquisition of BioTrove builds on collaboration dating to 2007.

11/10/2009

Pfizer Slashes Research, Staff after Wyeth Deal

R&D will be conducted at five main sites and nine specialized units around the world, compared with 20 R&D sites.

11/9/2009

Novartis to Invest R&D Funds in China

Will open a new global technical center

11/3/2009

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