Commodity Telepresence with Team AVATRINA’s Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals
Published in 2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
Recommended citation: Marques, J.M.C., Peng, J.C., Naughton, P., Zhu, Y., Nam, J. S., Hauser, K. (2023) "Commodity Telepresence with Team AVATRINA’s Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals". In 2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/ICRA2023AvatarWS/contributions/ICRA_2023_Avatar_WS_Marques.pdf
This workshop paper presents the techniques and technologies we employed in our successful entry on the ANA Avatar XPrize finals, in 2022 in Los Angeles. Our team, AvaTRINA, placed 4th overall, being the only team to complete the full obstacle course without the use of any bulky Load Force Feedback devices on the operator`s arms. We believe augmented reality and assistive teleoperation modes are one viable path towards scalable and equitable adoption of avatar technologies.