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1.- Harry Kloor introduced the idea of using human-controlled robotic avatars to enable remote work, learning, and assistance anywhere in the world.
2.- Kloor believes avatar robotics could help address global challenges by moving human expertise to where it's needed without physical travel.
3.- Beyond Imagination, Kloor's company, aims to develop a platform allowing humans to inhabit robotic bodies and "teleport" their consciousness anywhere.
4.- Ray Kurzweil and other tech leaders believe Beyond Imagination's avatar technology could become a transformative industry on par with smartphones and the internet.
5.- Kloor sees avatars enabling prosperity by allowing people to obtain services, education, and work opportunities regardless of their physical location.
6.- An Avatar XPRIZE sponsored by ANA is currently underway with teams competing to develop functional avatar robotics technologies.
7.- Dr. Kamen Kondos, Assistant Professor at Keio University, discussed his work on developing wearable robotics to augment and empower the human body.
8.- One of Kondos' projects, MetaLimbs, gives users a robotic additional arm they control with their legs and feet to assist with tasks.
9.- Another project by Kondos is a biomimetic robotic tail worn by a human to study how it could assist with balance.
10.- Kondos also works on avatar robotics, including a system enabling a hospitalized elderly woman to virtually attend her grandson's wedding.
11.- The FUSION project puts a miniature humanoid robot on a person's shoulder, allowing a remote operator to assist them.
12.- Patrick Meier, CEO of WeRobotics, argued that diversity and inclusion of developing nations is crucial for positive global impact of robotics/AI.
13.- Meier described how a Silicon Valley drone delivery company failed to serve communities lacking 3G, furthering inequity.
14.- WeRobotics focuses on enabling local experts in developing countries to found and run impactful robotics projects tailored to community needs.
15.- Examples included cargo drones for medical supply delivery, equipment for rapid disaster damage assessment, and using AI to reduce dengue fever.
16.- Meier emphasized the importance of decolonizing the "robotics for good" space and shifting power to diverse local changemakers.
17.- WeRobotics has helped launch autonomous robotics companies by local entrepreneurs in developing countries, moving up the value chain.
18.- Prof. Manuela Herbert of CMU discussed advanced robotics research, including modular robotics enabling adaptability and accessibility of robotic solutions.
19.- CMU is developing a snake robot for search & rescue and an ultra-thin robotic endoscope to enable incisionless surgeries.
20.- Modular "plug & play" robotics could allow non-experts to construct custom robots, like how software libraries enable easier programming today.
21.- CMU has projects using drone and ground robot imaging and AI to assist smart agriculture and post-disaster assessment.
22.- A key focus is on "human-aware" AI - getting robots to intelligently interpret human behavior, intent, gaze, emotion to fluidly assist people.
23.- One project enabled a paralyzed woman to dexterously control a robot arm through an AI that inferred her intent from neural signals.
24.- Prof. Matthias Scheutz of Tufts University argued future robots must be taskable, teachable, collaborative, ethical, and transparent.
25.- Robots should be instructable via natural language, learn new knowledge/skills from humans, and share knowledge with other robots.
26.- Ethical robots must understand and follow the norms of human society, reject commands that violate norms, and justify their choices.
27.- A demo showed a robot figuring out an implicit request, learning a new object from a description, and retrieving that object.
28.- Another demo had a robot learn a "squat" exercise from one human's instructions, then immediately teach it to another robot.
29.- A third demo showed a cleaning robot obeying a norm about not disturbing occupied rooms and explaining its reasoning.
30.- Scheutz believes robots with these capabilities of taskability, teachability, collaboration, ethics and transparency are key to beneficial integration into human society.
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