Coarobo GK Begins Cybernetic Avatar Platform Development with ATR under JST Moonshot R&D Program

Homeยป

Press Releasesยป

Coarobo GK Begins Cybernetic Avatar Platform Development with ATR under JST Moonshot R&D Program

Kyoto, JapanJanuary 7, 2025

Coarobo GK is pleased to announce the start of a research engagement with the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) to contribute to the development of the Cybernetic Avatar Platform (CA Platform) at the core of the Avatar Symbiotic Society project, led by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of The University of Osaka as part of Goal 1 of the JST Moonshot R&D Program . The engagement commenced on January 7, 2025, with R&D Engineer Sebastian Carrera assigned full-time to ATR's facilities in Kyoto for an initial three-month period. This collaboration marks Coarobo GK's first direct contribution to the project during Phase 1 of the program.

The CA Platform provides the connectivity and control fabric that enables cybernetic avatars to be operated remotely across distributed deployments. During this initial engagement, Sebastian Carrera contributes to the platform's Unity-based client, extending it from one-to-one connections toward many-to-many configurations, refactoring the graphical interface, and reinforcing the test suite to support a broader range of avatars. The work is carried out on-site at ATR's coworking space in Kyoto, in close coordination with the platform's lead developers.

Contributing to the CA Platform brings together our experience in robotics software and one of Japan's most ambitious long-horizon research programs. We are honored to support ATR and Prof. Ishiguro's team in this stage of the Avatar Symbiotic Society initiative, and we look forward to a productive engagement.

Lotfi El Hafi, President & Founder of Coarobo GK

Coarobo GK remains committed to applying its engineering expertise to the cybernetic avatar technologies that will shape the next decades of human-robot interaction.

Related

Coarobo GK Begins Cybernetic Avatar Platform Development with ATR under JST Moonshot R&D Program
cybernetic avatarsmoonshot programresearch contractplatform development