UK teams chasing $5million prize as part of international robotics competition – Aberdeen Live

Two UK businesses have announced they will team-up in an effort to scoop first place in a prestigious robotics competition.

Cyberselves and Touchlab will be competing at the ANA Avatar XPRIZE in California later this year. The competition, with a total prize pot worth $10million, calls for teams to develop physical robotic avatar systems to carry out tasks and replicate human senses, actions and presence to a remote location in real-time.

The competition challenges teams to develop physical robot avatar systems, which, through replicating human senses and actions, can transport human presence to a remote location in real-time. Just 20 competitors from all over the world were chosen for the finals of the competition, taking place November 4-5, 2022, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Los Angeles.

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Cyberselves-Touchlab is the only UK team competing in the final. The team combines Cyberselves robotics telepresence technology with Touchlabs electronic skin (e-skin) for robots.

Daniel Camilleri, Founder and CEO of Cyberselves, said: This is a competition more than four years in the making, and over the past few months, we really started to see how an official team-up between Cyberselves and Touchlab could result in something incredible for the XPRIZE finals.

Whilst the experience has been competitive, I think our team shows how collaborative and inclusive the tech world can be. Rather than just seeing each other as competitors, we are instead thinking - I want to work with that team too and lets go forward together to make something even better than we first planned.

We have admired how Touchlab works and have evolved their technology throughout the XPRIZE experience, and with similar values and a drive to create the most cutting-edge technology possible, we knew combining our skills could lead to something great. Together, we are the only team from the UK heading out to California in November, and we are working hard to bring home a prize, so watch this space.

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Dr Zaki Hussein, Founder and CEO of Touchlab, said: The Avatar XPrize is about creating a new industry of telerobots to break down barriers and transport human presence anywhere, on earth and beyond. It is a competition not only about robots but also what it means to be human.

Although we are pushing post-human barriers by blurring the line between self and non-self, we believe the sense of touch, along with seamless control, will allow for the operator to feel human while present through an extended-self Avatar.

We hope our partnership with Cyberselves shows UK solidarity while also serving as a catalyst to others. We all need to work together in a complementary fashion to bring about real impact and commercial applications in an industry whose potential is yet to be realised - both now and beyond the XPrize.

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