Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
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Hauser, K.
Watson, E.N.
Bae, J.
Bankston, J.
Behnke, S.
Borgia, B.
Catalano, M.G.
Dafarra, S.
Erp, J.B.F. van
Ferris, T.
Fishel, J.
Hoffman, G.
Ivaldi, S.
Kanehiro, F.
Kheddar, A.
Lannuzel, G.
Morie, J.F.
Naughton, P.
NGuyen, S.
Oh, P.
Padir, T.
Pippine, J.
Park, J.
Vaz, J.
Pucci, D.
Whitney, P.
Wu, P.
Locke, D.
The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic “avatar” system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically present. The competition featured a unique requirement that judges would operate the avatars after less than one hour of training on the human-machine interfaces, and avatar systems were judged on both objective and subjective scoring metrics. This paper presents a unified summary and analysis of the competition from technical, judging, and organizational perspectives. We study the use of telerobotics technologies and innovations pursued by the competing teams in their avatar systems, and correlate the use of these technologies with judges’ task performance and subjective survey ratings. It also summarizes perspectives from team leads, judges, and organizers about the competition’s execution and impact to inform the future development of telerobotics and telepresence. (C) 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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TNO Identifier
993373
ISSN
18754791
Source
International Journal of Social Robotics, 17(3), pp. 473-504.
Pages
473-504
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