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Pittsburgh continues to reinvent itself, from being
a center of coal and steel production to becoming
a home to recent advances in biomedical and
robotics technology. And as a hub of innovation,
the city is the ideal location for Uber's Advanced
Technologies Group Center (ATG Center), where
the company's driverless cars are being developed.
Since its inception in 2009, Uber has
connected more than a billion riders to drivers
in more than 450 cities and counting. Seeking
to make a serious investment in robotics and
the development of autonomous cars, the company
launched the ATG Center in the Lawrenceville
neighborhood of Pittsburgh to be within the vicinity
of Carnegie Mellon University's respected robotics
department. The company has transformed an
80,000-square-foot warehouse along the Allegheny
River into a workplace of tomorrow for nearly 500
employees. "We're situated between two bridges
directly on the water. It's simply a beautiful location,"
says Eric Meyhofer, Uber ATG Center's principal
and engineering lead.
Technology by design
San Francisco-based designer Denise Cherry
had been collaborating with Uber in recent years.
The company chose her nascent firm, Assembly (see
profile, page 18), led by Cherry, Liz Guerrero, and
Omar Toro-Vaca, to oversee the design, with Strada
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