Higgs Centre incubator company – Touchlab – qualify on $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
(Image Credit: Edinburgh Centre for Robotics) The ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition is a global competition, sponsored by All Nippon Airways (ANA). Over 4 years, it will challenge teams around the world to develop a remotely-controlled teleoperated Avatar system. What this means is that teams will compete to develop a robot – one which will experience the world in many of the ways that humans do – that is operated remotely by a human controller. The robot should be able to use se