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The accelerating pace of technological change now places Man and Machine in direct competition: for jobs, in gaming, on the battlefield, and for the accolade of supreme intelligence. Together, humans and technology now find themselves in an ever more intimate partnership that is starting to blur the lines between human and cyborg - influencing the advancement of both. Purely human sporting competitions no longer acknowledge the reality that man and machine operating in synergy can achieve resul... ts greater than the sum of their parts. It is time for a new type of Games, one that allows the innovation in robotics, Information Technology (IT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enter the arena alongside humans, both in partnership and in competition. They have designed new types of competitive models for disciplines that embrace prosthetics, robotic technologies, AI and gaming within a completely egalitarian environment. Such an environment would not be based on an atavistic model of what mankind was like three millennia ago, but rather on what humanity is becoming under the influence of technology.More