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Chatbots.org is a worldwide community platform. Great!!!! Working with the best people all over the world. How amazing is that?

Drawback is that it is not necessary at all to meet each other in real life, even though you really have the desire to meet those individuals!

Well, it took 4 years before I could meet our Poland based team member Karolina Kuligowska.

And it was a real pleasure. Thank you so much for guiding me around Karolina! And lots of success with working with local companies as well (beside all the work you do for Chatbots.org ! ).

Dave, you’re next on my wish list !! And my ultimate dream is to have the whole team together during our yearly conferences….

We have started to work on Crowd Funding: an excellent opportunity for believers in Chatbots.org and for all people working on the website. Never heard of Crowd Funding before? Check out this nice example:

A $1.2 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program grant from the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research and Army Research Office.

Five UCF professors were awarded grants for equipment out of more than 700 proposals sent in by academic institutions nationwide, two of them immediately relevant to the field of virtual humans:  Mingjie Lin, assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science, requested $201,500 for high-performance computer and robotic training equipment, and Gregory Welch, research professor in the Institute for Simulation and Training requested $281,400 for a physical-virtual human-robot interaction system;

“We are trying to break free from the monitor and bring some of it out of the screen physically in front of you,” said Welch, who is working on a “Sensorium” for a physical-virtual avatar. “Have human-shaped robots change their appearance, behavior and their shape in a way that allows them to be flexible.”

The research could yield a physical-virtual human, Welch said, that could move its arms and face and even give you a smile.