Uber acquired artificial intelligence research startup Geometric Intelligence and announced the 15-member team from Geometric Intelligence will form the core of its new Uber AI Labs division focused on research in artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a blog post.

The team will include Geometric Intelligence co-founder and CEO Gary Marcus, who will direct Uber AI Labs.

“Uber is in the business of using technology to move people and things in the real world,” Uber Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden wrote in a blog post today announcing the lab. “With all of its complexity and uncertainty, negotiating the real world is a high-order intelligence problem. It manifests in myriad ways, from determining an optimal route to computing when your car or UberEATS order will arrive to matching riders for uberPOOL. It extends to teaching a self-driven machine to safely and autonomously navigate the world, whether a car on the roads or an aircraft through busy airspace or new types of robotic devices.”

Uber’s doing a lot with machine learning already through its research team in Pittsburgh, but they’re focused specifically on solving issues related to autonomous driving, TechCrunch reported. This new core team will look at applications for AI more broadly, with a focus on basic research that’s likely to have impact across a range of potential applications, including things like route management.