17 Robots, Teams From Around the World Vie for $8m successful Prizes, November 4-5 successful Long Beach, CA

Today marks the opening of the ANA AVATAR XPRIZE testing contention successful Long Beach, CA, wherever 17 teams from 10 countries volition vie for the $8M expansive prize purse. Sponsored by All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest, five-star airline, the ANA Avatar XPRIZE challenges teams to make physical, human-operated robotic avatar systems that tin execute tasks and replicate a human’s senses, actions and beingness to a distant determination successful real-time, starring to a much connected world.

This escaped and nationalist event, which is being held November 4-5, 2022 astatine the Long Beach Convention Center and streamed online, is the culmination of a four-year qualification process that began successful March 2018.

Through November 5th, teams volition propulsion the limits of immersive telepresence technology—robotics combined with artificial intelligence, sensors, virtual world (VR), haptics, and more—by investigating their avatar creations connected a bid of analyzable tasks crossed a custom-built trial course. More than 1,000 radical are pre-ticketed to attend, including students, educators, and leaders successful the fields of robotics, to get a first-hand presumption of the aboriginal of telepresence.

The teams arrived yesterday successful Long Beach, to statesman their setup and hole for trial runs successful their squad garages, preparing for the unrecorded investigating runs, which statesman connected November 4th.

The last prize purse totals $8M, with the expansive prize victor receiving $5M, and 2nd and 3rd spot teams receiving $2M and $1M, respectively. To win, the teams indispensable show the quality for the avatars to execute tasks crossed a assortment of real-world scenarios and convey a consciousness of beingness for some the relation and the recipient successful those interactions.

“This contention is not lone astir advancing the aboriginal of robotics; it is, fundamentally, astir the aboriginal of quality connectivity,” said David Locke, Senior Program Director, ANA Avatar XPRIZE. “I’m excited to spot the capabilities that the teams volition bring astatine the extremity of this four-year travel with america making telepresence a reality.”

Leading exertion organizations (Blue Origin, FIRST Robotics, JPL, ANA/avatar, SenseGlove, vROTOR), universities (USC, UCLA, IHMC), and others volition besides person interactive and experiential exhibits, arsenic portion of the XPRIZE Tech Fair, which volition supply further hands-on opportunities for attendees.

For those viewing online, the livestream will diagnostic the teams moving each 30 minutes from 1:00pm - 6:00pm PT connected Friday and 10:00am-4:00pm PT connected Saturday, with the elaborate investigating docket disposable connected the XPRIZE website. The winners volition beryllium announced astatine the main signifier of the Long Beach Convention Center astatine astir 4:30pm PT connected Saturday, November 5.

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ABOUT XPRIZE

XPRIZE is simply a planetary future-positive movement, delivering genuinely extremist breakthroughs for the payment of humanity. XPRIZE inspires and empowers a planetary assemblage of problem-solvers to positively interaction our satellite by crowdsourcing solutions done large-scale competitions, tackling the world’s grandest challenges successful exploration, situation and quality equity. Active competitions see the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal with Elon Musk, $15 Million XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, $10 Million XPRIZE Rainforest, $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE, $5 Million XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling, and $1 Million Digital Learning Challenge. Donate, motion up oregon articulation a squad at xprize.org.

ABOUT ANA

Founded successful 1952 with conscionable 2 helicopters, All Nippon Airways (ANA) has grown to go the largest hose successful Japan. ANA HOLDINGS Inc. (ANA HD) was established successful 2013 arsenic the largest hose radical holding institution successful Japan, comprising 71 companies including ANA and Peach Aviation, the starring LCC successful Japan. For much information, delight visit: https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/.

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