$10m prize to let you feel what a distant robot is feeling

A new $10 million XPrize competition wants anyone to be able to control a robot and carry out tasks from 100 kilometres away. Not just that, but untrained users should be able to feel, hear and touch their surroundings too. This latest ambitious X Prize challenge – the ANA XPrize Avatar Challenge – was launched by the non-profit today at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. It is sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA. Teams should submit their plans to a panel of expert judges by the end of January 2019.