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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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