The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Wayne State University: 1 model, $595,611 raised.
CategoryRobotaxis
Overview
Wayne State University is a public R1 research university in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 1868. It is a Carnegie R1 institution with $292M in annual sponsored research (FY2025) and operates the Connected and Autonomous Driving Laboratory (CAR Lab), an NSF-funded autonomous vehicle safety research program, and an 80-year-old Injury Biomechanics Research and Testing Facility for crash-test and automotive safety research.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundNSF CAREER Grant post-money
Key facts
President
Research expenditure (FY2024)
Sponsored research (FY2025)
NSF HERD ranking
Carnegie classification
Students
Endowment
Key research areas
Models (1)
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Richard A. Bierschbach President (14th)secondary-verified
- Weisong Shi Professor of Computer Science, Director of CAR Labsecondary-verified
- Zheng Dong Assistant Professor of Computer Sciencesecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Wayne State University.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Wayne State University on the data-center map
Every verified data center Wayne State University operates that has a mapped coordinate (1 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Wayne State University data centers (1)
AI data centers Wayne State University operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Wayne State University in third-party press
About Richard A. Bierschbach - 14th President of Wayne State University
Wayne State University celebrates groundbreaking for $200 million Health Sciences Research Building
Wayne State University research making strides in autonomous vehicle and machine systems to make them safer, more effective
Peer companies
Financial state
- Total funding
- $595,611
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
- NSF CAREER Grant2025-03-18
$595,611(reported) · $3M post
Investors: National Science Foundation (lead)
- Other2025-03-18
Timeline
Every recorded move in Wayne State University’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundOther funding round
2025-03-18Other
Funding roundNSF CAREER Grant funding round
2025-03-18NSF CAREER Grant raising $595611
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 20, 2026
Added to the verified registry
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Methodology: Claimed (not independently verified) · no sources on file · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Claimed (not independently verified)
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Wayne State University.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Wayne State University from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
About Richard A. Bierschbach - 14th President of Wayne State University
Richard A. Bierschbach elected 14th president of Wayne State University; leads research university with record $292M sponsored research and new Institute for AI and Data Science.
Wayne State University celebrates groundbreaking for $200 million Health Sciences Research Building
WSU breaks ground on 160,000 sq ft $200M Health Sciences Research Building in Midtown Detroit, supported by $100M from State of Michigan.
Wayne State University research making strides in autonomous vehicle and machine systems to make them safer, more effective
NSF awards $595,611 CAREER grant to Prof. Zheng Dong for ChronosDrive project ensuring timing correctness in DNN-driven autonomous vehicles.
New Wayne State lab uses autonomous vehicle tech to develop innovative computing solutions
Prof. Weisong Shi establishes the Connected and Autonomous Driving Laboratory (CAR Lab) at WSU for edge computing research in CAV technology, partnering with PerceptIn and…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/wayne-state-university.md
- RSS feed: /companies/wayne-state-university/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/2914aebc-8a43-4ce2-82b3-a499274ae87e
- Revision history: /companies/wayne-state-university/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
2026 FIM District Wayne State Event presented by Magna - Broadcast Day 2 https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2026/MIDTR (c) 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition
The service through Grubhub just launched this week, and the school says its the first university in Michigan to bring automated delivery to campus
2026 FIM District Wayne State Event presented by Magna - Broadcast Day 3 https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2026/MIDTR (c) 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition
EV3 Robotics Summer Camp held at Wayne State University 2016 for kids ages 11 - 14 years old.
Final 2 - 2023 FIM District Wayne State University Event presented by Magna Red (Teams 6029, 1189, 7769) - 119 Blue (Teams 3539, 226, 9207) - 122 https://frc-ev
Wayne State students show their tech skills with robots
Qualification 74 - 2024 FIM District Wayne State Event presented by Magna Red (Teams 815, 5532, 3539) - 48 Blue (Teams 5756, 4768, 5901) - 18 https://frc-events
Autonomous miniature delivery vehicle built for ET 4999 Senior Project at Wayne State University (Fall 2023). The vehicle follows a black-line track, detects c
We spoke to Allison from Botmasterz 9255 at Wayne State week 3, where they took home the Impact Award. Wishing them the best at States! Presented by @lawrencete
Interview with the Steel Stingers 8193 from the Wayne State Districts where they were the captain of alliance 3 and took home the Industrial Design Award. Prese
Siouxland students came together for a robotics competition, Monday.
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Wayne State University draws attention at the 30th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among AVs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026