Wednesday, January 8, 2020

XPRIZE: 77 Teams In $10M ANA Avatar Competition

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, the nonprofit which runs global competitions to spur the development of technology to solve some of humanity's biggest challenges, says it now has 77 teams signed up for its $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition. The ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition is aimed at spurring development of technology to allow humans to have a remote presence in remote locations in real time. XPRIZE said the 77 teams were selected from 99 registrants, and span the globe. The group says that, to win this competition, teams must integrate multiple emerging technologies to develop a physical, non-autonomous robotic avatar system that enables an operator to see, hear, and interact within a remote environment--and where those operators and systems will be used to conduct a number of remote tasks.