XPrize announces a $10M contest for remotely-controlled robotic avatars

 XPrize announced today that it’s teaming up with Japanese airline All Nippon Airways on a new $10 million competition. XPrize founder and chairman Peter Diamandis said the ANA team was interested in an XPrize around “reinventing travel,” which eventually turned into a prize for developing technology that would actually eliminate the need to physical travel in some situations.… Read More

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