Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center is the newest Planet M testing facility partner.
Planet M is Michigan’s initiative to spur development of autonomous vehicles.
The Great Lakes Research Center is the first partner that will focus on marine vehicles. The designation will help bring development grants to the area.
The GLRC is home to the Marine Autonomy Research Site – the world’s first designated freshwater environment for testing autonomous surface and subsurface vehicles.
Read more about the new designation here.