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from the next-up:-dragon-riding-competitions dept.
Humanoid robots could soon allow us to stream our consciousness anywhere in the world, acting as surrogate bodies that enable people to ‘instantly be in multiple places at once.’
This is the goal of the Avatar XPrize, an ANA-sponsored concept for a $22 million contest just selected at the XPrize Visioneers 2016 Summit as ‘ready to launch.’
Backed by Japan’s largest airline, ANA, the Avatar XPrize will be a globally televised competition for the development of real avatars.
Teams will be given three years to create a system that can control an avatar in one basic task.
Then in 2022, finalists will move on to the Annual Avatar Games to compete across five categories: caretaker, public speaker, disaster relief, tennis, and musician.
These tasks will include pushing a wheelchair through a course, cooking an omelette, and even providing basic healthcare to a wounded person.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:01PM
> You can thank all the moronic Democratic voters for this one; they just *had* to have Hillary as their nominee.
Yeah, it is the democrats fault that total fucktards can't stop losing their ever living shit over someone who is nothing more than an ambitiously competent bureaucrat.
All those "scandals" your listed? They are the result of hundreds of millions of republican directed tax dollars spent trying to find something, anything on her. And the reason she's not in jail? Because its nothing more than Cardinal Richelieu's "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him," in action.
I never had any intention of voting for her, and I won't be come election day either. But holy fucking shit you conspiracy theorists are the biggest suckers, you think your cynicism saves you from being sheeple but you are the most easily herded of them all.