UNLV’s Team-Hubo heads to the $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition

Four years of intensive work by a team of UNLV robotics students is about to pay off. We hope. Transcending the limitations of location and the hazards of disasters is a massive challenge — one that students in professor Paul Oh’s Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab (DASL) have been working on with their humanoid robot, Avatar-Hubo. Using the latest technologies in VR, AI, haptics and more, Avatar-Hubo will allow anyone to possess the body of a functional robot and teleport their presence anywhere across the globe. The team will find out how well they've done Nov. 4-5 when they compete against teams from around the world in the finals in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE challenge. MORE: https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/unlv-students-ready-their-final-challenge-quest-transcend-location