Ford partners with U-M on robotics research, new building
In a frame grab from video, robots walk across the floor of the University of Michigan's Ford Motor Co. Robotics Building, March 12, 2021 in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)ANN ARBOR, Mich. โ Digit marches on two legs across the floor of the University of Michiganโs Ford Motor Co. Robotics Building, while Mini-Cheetah โ staccato-like โ does the same on four and the yellow-legged Cassie steps deliberately side-to-side. Three floors house classrooms and research labs for robots that fly, walk, roll and augment the human body. On the top floor are Ford researchers and engineers and the automaker's first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus. Researchers working together in the building are designing robots for people, said Alec Gallimore, dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Ford gives salaried employees several work options amid COVID-19 pandemic
DEARBORN, Mich. Ford Motor Company has laid out several options for its white-collar employees in terms of where to do their work for the rest of the year amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. If Ford employees choose to return to their offices theyre going to find a far different return to their offices. Theyre going to find a different workplace. Ford is asking employees in a survey how they want to work beyond September. Ford is offering office workers, that if they want to keep working from home -- they can through the new year.