Ride-hailing company Uber said Wednesday that it will give $5.5 million to Carnegie Mellon University to support a new robotics faculty chair and three fellowships. The move comes after Uber poached 40 researchers from the University’s National Robotics Engineering center earlier this year to build driverless cars. Uber and Carnegie Mellon formed a strategic partnership in February in which Uber said it would fund some Carnegie Mellon positions and work with staff. Uber has established a research center in Pittsburgh, home of Carnegie Mellon.
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