The term “avatar” might be most familiar as a picture used on social media, but in the technology world, it can mean much more.
When James Cameron’s hit movie “Avatar” came to theaters in 2009, it introduced a concept already cooking in the technology community: for a connected operator to be able to fully remotely opperate the movements of a robot.
In the movie, the robots were biological, but the technology in the real world is connected to more traditional robots with circuits and computers. These also are called avatars. [Read more…] about International work puts robot avatars on the move