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🔬 Introducing University Research Program 3.0! At TRI, we believe meaningful innovation happens when industry and academia work side by side. Today, we’re announcing the next 5-year phase of our University Research Program (URP 3.0), expanding our collaboration with leading North American universities and welcoming 11 new institutions into the community. URP 3.0 will support 69 research projects across 31 universities, bringing together 88 TRI researchers and 104 faculty members. The program spans robotics, AI, driving, and materials science, with projects exploring everything from dexterous manipulation and reinforcement learning to sustainable catalyst design. Programs like URP play an important role in sustaining long-term, curiosity-driven research while connecting it to practical outcomes. We’re looking forward to what this next chapter will bring! Learn more about this work and some of the projects: https://lnkd.in/gua4VbmH Participating institutions include: Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, DePaul University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan College of Engineering & Innovation Partnerships, University of Minnesota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, New York University, Penn State University, Princeton University, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford University, University of Toronto, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS), UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia, University of Southern California, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington.