The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic avatar system that would allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as if they were physically present. The competition required that judges operate the avatars after less than an hour of training on the human-machine interfaces. The paper analyzes the competition from technical, judging, and organizational perspectives, studying the use of telerobotics technologies and innovations pursued by the competing teams. It also covers the correlation between the use of these technologies with judges’ task performance and subjective survey ratings. The paper includes perspectives from team leads, judges, and organizers about the competition’s execution and impact to inform future development of telerobotics and telepresence.
Publication date: 12 Jan 2024
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05290
