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In April 2021, Kuffner was picked to run Woven Planet, Toyota's subsidiary for developing future technology in cars. In
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and the "RRT-Connect" algorithm developed as part of his Ph.D. research. The RRT-Connect algorithm has become a key standard benchmark for sampling-based exploration of high-dimensional search spaces for robot
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