Uber to develop flying taxis in Paris with new €20m research centre
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3QX83)
Firm's first non-US Advanced Technologies Centre will host Elevate programme and research into electric transport
Uber is opening a new research centre in Paris to develop the firm's flying taxis as part of its Elevate programme.
The new Advanced Technologies Centre, which will open in the autumn, will be Uber's first development site outside the US. The taxi firm said that it would be investing a20m (17.5m) over the next five years and is partnering with icole Polytechnique on various research schemes.
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