On July 1st we proudly presented our spotlight talk on our short paper “Commodity Telepresence with the AvaTRINA Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Semifinals” at the RSS 2022 workshop “Toward Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition” . We were happy to share our insights with other researchers on robotic avatars and …. Read More
Team AVATRINA has been selected as a finalist for the ANA Avatar XPRIZE! This comes with a $133,000 prize which we are investing in fielding the next generation of the AVATRINA system. See the press release from XPRIZE here, and the press release from UIUC CS here.
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.