Fast Company today announced its sixth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list, honoring organizations and businesses that demonstrate an inspiring commitment to encourage and develop innovation at all levels. Lenovo came first in the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators and topped the list of companies in artificial intelligence and robotics due to its three-year, $2.2 billion investment to expand its R&D centers, training, staff, and partnerships supporting AI innovation. Twenty-five percent of the company’s employees work in some capacity of R&D, and the company’s focus on AI is creating breakthroughs like a new AI-powered sign language translation solution designed in collaboration with the Brazilian innovation center CESAR.
