On September 15-19, Team AVATRINA competed at the XPRIZE semifinals in Miami, Florida, USA. Ultimately the system performed extremely well and we are pleased with how the competition played out! It was a bit of a logistical whirlwind to ship the equipment to the convention center and travel during the COVID pandemic. Seven team members ….  Read More

Here is our video submission to the ANA Avatar XPRIZE semifinals selection on 02/02/2021. In this video, we demonstrate a remote medical appointment scenario and safety features of our TRINA robot.

For 2 years in a row, our team won the best robotics demonstration award at UIUC’s Coordinated Sciences Lab (CSL) Student Conference. Congrats to the team for putting this together. Here is the demo video that entered the conference:

At UIUC’s Coordinated Sciences Lab (CSL) Student Conference, our TRINA group won the best demo prize! Congrats to Joao, Yifan, and Jaejun for putting this together. Although we weren’t able to take great photos during the event, the following photos show the robot in its current state.

Back Row: Johnny Chang, Tianzhen Li, Eric Zhang, Joao Marques, Kris Hauser (PI), WoonJoon Lee, Peter Chiu, Aman Kishore, Bassel Abu, Yuecheng Li Front Row: Hayne Kim, Phoebe Chen, Yifan Zhu, JaeJun Park, Rohan

Team AVATRINA has officially submitted qualifying documents to XPRIZE. Most of the materials can be found on this site.