AITopics | distant robot

Collaborating Authors

distant robot

Information about AI from the News, Publications, and Conferences

Automatic Classification – Tagging and Summarization – Customizable Filtering and Analysis

If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

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

New ScientistMar-12-2018, 17:44:56 GMT

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.

artificial intelligence, distant robot, xprize, (1 more...)

New Scientist

Country:

North America > United States > Texas > Travis County > Austin (0.28)
Asia > Japan > Honshū > Tōhoku > Fukushima Prefecture > Fukushima (0.08)

Genre: Contests & Prizes (1.00)

Technology: Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots (0.64)

Add feedback