 We had internet, we had iPhones, now we'll have avatars. The ANA Avatar XPRIZE is a $10 million competition that challenges teams to develop a physical robotic avatar system that can transport your senses, actions and presence to a remote location in real time and feel as if you're actually there. We'll be able to completely break through all of the barriers of distance, time and cultures that exist in our world. I think that will allow us to unleash the full potential of humanity for the very first time. We are at the exact right time to bring different technologies together to make something that the first roboticist didn't think about, you know, this human-to-human connection. To connect with loved ones, maybe that you're not able to see often, to be able to transport skills so doctors and teachers are able to use their expertise anywhere in the world instantaneously. You may be able to go into space or go into a disaster relief situation where you can send an avatar and not risk human life. The number of opportunities are endless. What I'm expecting is to be able to sense the breeze, the smell and interact with the remote environment. Scoop sand in the tropics, you feel the grains running through your fingers from central Europe. Shake hands with someone in Tokyo, you feel the firmness of that handshake in Los Angeles. It will enable people everywhere to experience our world in a way that they wouldn't have before. By creating remote and collaborative telepresence activities, we'll change the way we live and work together. 77 qualified teams from 19 countries have been selected to move forward to the next stage of the competition. These teams now have the opportunity to advance to the semifinals in 2021 where they will demonstrate their avatars capabilities to enter the finals in 2022. Time is limited. The clock is ticking. In order to be successful, you're going to have to be ahead of the curve in developing these avatar technologies. I am just thrilled to see how many teams are so passionate about what they're doing. They all have a dream. They all have a vision. And they're willing to work on something that is going to make an impact on humanity that we can't even measure today. Right now, opportunity and access is not equal around the world. And this prize and this technology will erase that. Every aspect of our lives will be touched in a greater way than the smartphone has touched our lives. I think by the time we're at the end of the 20s, we'll see the use of avatars as being something integrated into many people's normal lives. The experience of teleporting yourself into an avatar halfway across the world will be something that will be really amazing. It's going to rewrite the way we exist as human beings and it's going to rewrite the way we connect across the globe. So I think this prize will be looked at as the beginnings of a massive change in our society for the good.