Moonshots

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Introducing our bold Moonshot goals to transform today’s challenges into opportunities for meaningful progress:

  • Enabling presence when it matters most, regardless of geographic distance.
  • Empowering mobility to support full paticipation in daily life.
  • Equipping the world to navigate life-changing events with confidence.
  • No longer aging in place in isolation.
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Center for Cyber Physical Realms

Moonshot: True Instant Presence System

Combining emotional intelligence with physical interactivity to foster real, meaningful presence.

  • Share a hug, cook a meal together — even from across continents
  • Empower surgeons to perform life-saving operations remotely
  • Tuck in your child and read a bedtime story from miles away
  • Offer care and companionship to aging parents from afar
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MOVE Center

Moonshot: Redefining Mobility

Imagine a mobility device so advanced that it feels like an extension of your body, controlled by your mind.

  • Prosthetic arm that senses textures
  • Smart wheelchair that anticipates needs, integrates with smart cities
  • Interfaces that adapt to the user's environment and intent
  • Brain-controlled prosthetics that mirror natural movement
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Center for Interactive Media

Moonshot: A Real-time Digital Twin of Georgia

Design and optimize innovative solutions and immersive training simulations.

  • Cyberattack prevention and response for schools, hospitals and public infrastructure
  • Severe weather response
  • Coordinated crisis management
  • First responder readiness, with scenario-based training for EMTs, firefighters and law enforcement
  • Traffic management
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Prototype Living of Tomorrow

Moonshot: Reimagining How we Live, Connect and Grow

The creation of a real-world prototype of sustainable, inclusive neighborhoods of the future.

  • Enhanced wellness and aging in place
  • Urban agriculture
  • Rehabilitation science
  • Green spaces
  • Sustainable design and energy systems
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