According to the Associated Press, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is launching a new center called the Center for Autonomy, which will be used to focus on autonomous technology such as self-driving cars and robotic assistants.

The university has allocated $2.1 million for the center, while the College of Engineering is providing an additional $2.1 million to recruit new robotics faculty.

Professor Geir Dullerud will serve as the director of the center. Dullerud says that the center will play an integral role in designing systems that work without human intervention, in a way that’s both reliable and safe. With this in mind, Dullerud points out that “there’s a difference between a self-driving car that works most of the time and a self-driving car that works all of the time.”

The center will also offer more experimental space for autonomy and robotics research.