A new competition has been annunciate to develop real - living Avatars , in the Bob Hope of spurring development of advanced robots in the approximate time to come .
TheANA Avatar XPRIZE , herald yesterday at SXSW in Texas , will give $ 10 million to teams that can show off a robotlike incarnation controlled remotely by a homo at least 100 kilometre ( 62 statute mile ) away . The hustler must be untrained but still able to complete some childlike and complex job .
hoi polloi canregister their intereston the web site now , with the rival formally opening to entrant on June 15 and closing on October 31 , 2018 .
“ Our ability to physically have another geographical location , or to provide on - the - primer help where needed , is limited by monetary value and the bare availableness of time , ” Peter Diamandis , the founder of XPRIZE , enounce in astatement .
“ The ANA Avatar XPRIZE can enable creation of an audacious option that could bypass these limitation allowing us to more quickly and expeditiously distribute skill and hand - on expertise to distant geographic locations where they are needed , bridge the gap between aloofness , time and cultures . ”
XPRIZE is notable for its audacious contender to taste and goad development in exceptional sphere . Perhaps the most notable was the Ansari XPRIZE , a contest to develop a reusable space plane , come through bySpaceShipOne in 2004 – which was later acquire by Virgin Galactic .
More late , a race to the Moon dubbed the Lunar XPRIZE wascanceledwhen it became clear none of the competitors would touch the competitor ’s deadline . The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE , meanwhile , has justselected its finaliststo map a lump of the ocean .
The estimate this fourth dimension around is to try and ameliorate our power to lick remotely . Robots could theoretically let humans access dangerous area like inside a blaze or a radiation therapy hot spot , without risk of infection of injuring anyone .
The robot develop by the teams will need to be able to “ remotely see , get word , and interact with physical environments and other people . ” The exact goals of the competition have not yet been lay out , although we do know there will be two milestones deserving $ 1 million each in April 2020 and April 2021 , followed by the $ 8 million expansive prize in October 2021 .
Primitive embodiment have been develop before , and remotely operating robots has been something particularly studied in spacefaring – known astelerobotics . It remains to be seen whether this rivalry will conduct to something far more advanced than already exists , although maybe do n’t go anticipate James Cameron - esque Na’vi just yet .
