{"id":149600,"date":"2022-11-06T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/teleportation-anyone-xprize-winner-is-the-closest-you-can-get"},"modified":"2022-11-06T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:27:18","slug":"teleportation-anyone-xprize-winner-is-the-closest-you-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/teleportation-anyone-xprize-winner-is-the-closest-you-can-get","title":{"rendered":"Teleportation Anyone? XPRIZE Winner Is The Closest You Can Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCZgunK-wYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teleportation became a bit more real on Saturday when a <a href=\"https:\/\/nimbro.net\/AVATAR\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/nimbro.net\/AVATAR\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"German team\">German team<\/a> of data scientists and engineers won the <a href=\"https:\/\/avatar.xprize.org\/prizes\/avatar\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/avatar.xprize.org\/prizes\/avatar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"ANA Avatar XPRIZE\">ANA Avatar XPRIZE<\/a> competition in Long Beach, California, with a four-wheeled, humanoid robot named <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uCZgunK-wYc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uCZgunK-wYc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"NimbRo\">NimbRo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But in this form of teleportation, rather than transporting a human to a remote location, vision, hearing, and a sense of touch were wirelessly transmitted from a humanoid robot to a remote human operator who then directed the robot to complete a series of complex tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelepresence and avatar technology will be an essential part of human progress in the decades to come,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/about\/people\/david-locke\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/about\/people\/david-locke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"David Locke\">David Locke<\/a>, ANA Avatar XPRIZE\u2019s executive director said in a statement following the conclusion of the four-year competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teleportation became a bit more real on Saturday when a German team of data scientists and engineers won the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition in Long Beach, California, with a four-wheeled, humanoid robot named NimbRo. But in this form of teleportation, rather than transporting a human to a remote location, vision, hearing, and a sense of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}