Summary of the project

By developing cybernetic avatars (CAs) with the essential function of hospitality-rich and moral dialogue, this project will realize an avatar-symbiotic society where even people constrained by time and space can participate in various social activities through remote operation of CAs. In this new society, diverse human resources can quickly solve problems by utilizing CA through remote operation even when social-scale problems occur. Thus, the society will successfully transform into a large scale remote mutual aid society. Moreover, the intervention of CA will lead to a secure daily life for the people who live alone as different professionals watch them over.
After CA technology enhances operators' physical and cognitive abilities and strengthens their vitality, our goal by 2030 is for multiple operators to engage in educational, medical, and other tasks by teleoperating with several CAs. By 2050, everyone, not only specialists, will be able to expand their ability to work more actively regardless of time and space via CA. The dramatic lifestyle change will bring us to realize an avatar-symbiotic society well-balanced between CA technology and community.