From remote tourism to metaverse, a new robotic avatar made in Italy

Feeling and moving in a place without being there is the main goal of the new iCub robot advanced telexistence system, also called the iCub3 avatar system, developed by researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Genova, Italy. The new system was tested in an online demonstration involving a human operator based in IIT, Genova, and a new version of the humanoid robot, the iCub 3, visiting the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhi...