Uber Technologies dropped a chunk of coin that will be used to create robotics fellowships at Carnegie Mellon.

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Uber gives $5.5 million to Carnegie Mellon University

Uber Technologies gifted $5.5 million to Carnegie Mellon University for a faculty chair and three new robotics graduate fellowships, the university announced Wednesday.

The donation continues a partnership with Uber announced earlier this year. The California-based company and CMU in February announced the Uber Advanced Technologies Center to join the university’s robotics research with the company’s technologists.

The company is one of 300 the university has partnerships with, including Google and Apple.
“Academia-industry partnerships play an important role in promoting our mutual missions of technological innovation and developing outstanding talent at all levels,” said CMU President Subra Suresh in a statement. “We are grateful for Uber’s support for the intellectual work at the heart of this activity.”