Milestone by year 2030

【Transformation into a society where diverse individuals' experiences and skills can be transferred through networks, enabling people to augment their own abilities by utilizing others' capabilities】

In emergencies such as natural disasters or infectious disease outbreaks, as well as in everyday settings like education and social welfare, individuals with diverse skills can collaborate through Cybernetic Avatars (CAs). This enables effective mutual aid and support, even in situations where direct assistance or service provision is difficult.

【Creating a remote mutual-aid society in which people with physical and cognitive disabilities can participate in social activities】

By collaborating and coordinating with others through consensual skill-fusion CAs, even individuals with physical or cognitive limitations can autonomously expand their bodily, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities, enabling them to reskill and enter new, previously unexperienced markets and industries. Furthermore, through CAs, they can participate in new cultural, artistic, sports, and educational activities, thereby enriching their quality of life.

Milestone by year 2025

【Skill & Experience transfer for Human Ability Augmentation】

By enabling multiple consenting individuals to integrate their physical, cognitive, and perceptual abilities via Cybernetic Avatars (CAs) connected over a network, it becomes possible to coordinate and collaborate across different skills and experiences. Regardless of physical disabilities, individuals can respect each other’s uniqueness and harness their differences. This allows for appropriate and tailored capability augmentation in fields that demand diverse skills and experiences, enabling participation in specific activities such as new forms of work, education, culture, and sports.

R&D theme progress reports

• 1. Social and embodied augmentation technology (Cognitive Augmentation Research Group)
• 2. Parallelization of experience and integrated cognitive behavioral technology (Parallel Agency Research Group)
• 3. Technology that combines the abilities of multiple bodies into one (Collective Ability Research Group)
• 4. Building a foundational CA platform for co-creation (CA-Cloud Platform Research Group)
• 5. Designing a co-created CA society that expands diversity and inclusivity (Social Co-Creation Research Group)
• 6. Designing the ethics and institutions for a CA society (Social System Research Group)
• Progress Report (1.32MB)

Performers

PDF Download

• Summary of the project (175KB)