Articles about XPRIZE

Biotech teams are gearing up for a $101M competition to boost healthy lifespan

Some of the biggest names in longevity research — and at least one Seattle biotech startup — say they’ll enter… Read More

XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling offers $5M to boost innovations in job training

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space… Read More

XPRIZE’s Code Games challenge gives kids an opportunity to create games for good

XPRIZE’s latest program to incentivize innovation is going after a new demographic: young people between the ages of 10 and… Read More

How ‘avatars’ could let you see the world — and your family — through telepresence

When it was time for Kevin Kajitani to put his ideas for traveling through telepresence to the test, he chose… Read More

Elon Musk with XPRIZE executives and winners

Backed by Elon Musk, Global Learning XPRIZE awards $10M to two tech teams

Two educational companies shared the $10 million top award in the Global Learning XPRIZE, a contest backed by Elon Musk,… Read More

Israel’s Beresheet lander crashes on moon, ending privately funded space odyssey

An Israeli-built lander crashed onto the moon today during its final descent, bringing an unfortunate end to the first privately… Read More

12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE

In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In 2006, she… Read More

ANA Holdings partners with Japan’s space agency on ‘Avatar X’ telepresence program

Telepresence robots on the moon and Mars? That’s the vision laid out for the partnership between ANA Holdings, the parent… Read More

Indian startup Leaf Wearables takes first place in $1M Women’s Safety XPRIZE competition

After multiple rounds of judging, a field test in Mumbai and months of competition, Indian startup Leaf Wearables has scored… Read More

Team Saffron enters the home stretch in competition for Women’s Safety XPRIZE

Students representing the Global Innovation Exchange are nearing the finish line in a competition to create wearable sensors that can… Read More

Want to sponsor a race to the moon? XPRIZE resurrects lunar landing challenge

Less than a week after the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize officially expired, its organizers say they’re relaunching it… Read More

Beyond the Avatar XPRIZE: ANA airline unveils ambitious vision for telepresence

All Nippon Airways’ newly announced sponsorship of a $10 million contest for real-life avatars is just one part of a… Read More

ANA Avatar XPRIZE puts up $10 million to boost breakthroughs in telepresence

All Nippon Airways is sponsoring a $10 million, four-year competition to spur the development of real-life avatars that could provide… Read More

Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste

PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting… Read More

Moon ambitions get a reality check — plus a boost from Apollo moonshot memories

Update for 10:54 a.m. PT Jan. 23: The managers of the Google Lunar X Prize competition acknowledge that the prize… Read More

‘Seat 14C’ short stories imagine a 20-year time warp – and now you can hop on board

Imagine you’re a passenger on a jet that mysteriously time warps to the year 2037: That’s what a team of… Read More

Seattle writers join XPRIZE’s sci-fi advisory council; air travel tales get set for takeoff

The non-profit XPRIZE foundation has recruited an all-star lineup of science fiction masters, including Seattle authors, to help create a series… Read More

XPRIZE clears Japan’s Team Hakuto for moon mission with India’s Team Indus

The rocketeers on Japan’s Team Hakuto say they’ve gotten the Google Lunar XPRIZE’s seal of approval on its plans for… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur Naveen Jain sponsors XPRIZE for alert system to report sexual violence

Naveen Jain — a Seattle area tech entrepreneur who co-founded lunar exploration startup Moon Express, innovation lab Blue Dot and Internet search engine… Read More