The University of Michigan is planning to build the $75 million Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus in Ann Arbor. Part of the College of Engineering, the four-story, 140,000-sf facility will feature collaborative research and development labs, classrooms, offices, high-bay space, and a fly zone for autonomous aerial vehicles. Ford Motor Company will occupy a laboratory on the top floor of the building and is providing $15 million in funding for the project. Completion is expected in late 2019.
The robotics facility is part of $489 million in planned capital developments on University of Michigan campuses, which will include a $122 million renovation and expansion of the W.K. Kellogg Institute and Dental Building; a $120 million renovation of the Edward Henry Kraus Building; construction of a $39 million, 65,000-sf addition to the Murchie Science Building; and the creation of a $90 million, 108,000-sf facility to replace the existing Dearborn Engineering Lab.
