AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH: Honda today awarded $50,000 advanced research grants to professors at seven U.S. universities at the 10th anniversary of the Honda Initiation Grant program and Technical Horizon Symposium held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
As part of the focus on advanced research and technology, Honda demonstrated the latest running version of its humanoid robot ASIMO, and other advanced technologies.
Honda established research and development operations in America more than 30 years ago and today has 13 major R&D facilities in the U.S. focused on complete product development for automobiles, motorcycles and other products as well as advanced research. The Honda Initiation Grant program was established in 1997 to foster collaborative research activity between Honda R&D engineers in the U.S. and members of the academic community in North America.
The goal of the Honda Initiation Grant program is to fund innovative ideas in the early stages of research that are likely to make valuable contributions to technology over a longer term of five to ten years. Over the
past decade, Honda has awarded 75 research grants to professors at universities throughout North America focused on the development of cutting-edge technologies in the areas of environmental technology, fundamental material science, computer science and humanoid robotics, advanced safety technology, intelligent vehicle technology and aviation.
The 2007 class of Honda Initiation Grant recipients was selected from 300 grant submissions, and includes the following seven professors and universities.
Honda R&D Americas and its parent company, American Honda Motor Co., are based in Torrance.
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