Metaverse Holiday: Visit Anywhere With iCub Robot From Your Home

A robot is being developed, which is exhibiting many possibilities regarding holidays or visiting places, and how extensively folks can feel life in virtual frontier.
Researchers examined a robot in a demo involving a human operator from Genova. Robot was sent 300 Kilometers away at International Architecture Exhibition.
Research objective is to attain humanoid robots which play part of avatars. They want a robotic structure which can serve as humans.

Say Hello To iCub

A robot is displaying possibilities regarding how intensely folks can experience life in final virtual frontier.

This little lad is known as iCub robot advanced telexistence system, also known as iCub3 avatar system.

The eggheads working on this are analysts at Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, Italy. Notion behind this is that this little friend of ours will be sent into a real place, to experience, see, hear, feel, on human’s behalf. And all this is possible while sitting at your house, securely and comfortably. This is what’s next after VR.

Trying Out The Prototype

Recently, analysts examined this robot system in a demonstration, where an individual was involved, who was 300 Kms away from robot. iCub was sent to International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Comms relied on usual optical fiber connection.

Human sitting 300 km away in Genove felt everything the robot did: feedback was touch, hectic, auditory, and visual. This is initial time where a systems having such attributes was tested utilizing a legged humanoid robot for remote tourism. Human operator may is able to experience and feel every action of a robot.

While this was only a prototype, it exhibits the spectacular potential for utilization of this type of AR in upcoming years. Distinct scenarios may involve a disaster response, such as deploying robot in an unsteady building for rescue operation.

Another case might be regarding healthcare, where a surgeon can efficiently operate remotely. Or just for fun. Potential for utilizing this prototype in metaverse have limitless utility.

Objectives of Metaverse Holiday

Artificial and Mechanical Lab at IIT Genova’s Daniele Pucci, Principal Investigator, says that, One of their research objectives is to attain a humanoid robot who can play a part of avatars.

They want a robotic body which can replace human body without actually substituting them. But enabling folks to be where they cannot be, is primary goal.

Pucci also states that, there are a couple of areas in which robot can be utilized in metaverse. Researcher adds that, iCub3 avatar system utilizes wearable tech and algorithms. These are for taking command of avatars in Metaverse.

This concept is similar to Pacific Rim, only difference is, folks will take command of robots but from a remote location instead of sitting inside one.

Daniele states that, to take command over a physical avatar, human motion is required to be correctly interpreted by avatar. This evolution is going to take place in a virtual environment, a simplified metaverse.

She adds that, before transmission of data from an individual to avatar, analysts exploit a simplified metaverse to ensure that robot movements are feasible in actual world.

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