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Weekly Rewind: Ann Arbor’s Business News Recap

Weekly Rewind March 19, 2021-decorative background with laptop, phone, tablet, and notes

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  • U-M and Ford open a huge new robotics center
    “U-M’s Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75 million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated on North Campus. As the new hub of the U-M Robotics Institute, its first three floors hold custom U-M research labs for robots that fly, walk, roll, and augment the human body—as well as classrooms, offices, and makerspaces. Through a unique agreement, the fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers and engineers.”