AI models
Proposed use of open-source models such as LLaMA.
Mars Challenge / Projects / Ayllu-EI
National winners · Reto Marte 2023Far from home.
Red Providence
Ayllu-EI
Far from home.
Close to familiar bonds.
Red Providence proposed a digital companion personalised through family conversations and texts to explore emotional wellbeing during isolation.
- Edition
- 2023 · Reto Marte
- Country
- Peru
- Recognition
- National winners
- Focus
- AI and emotional wellbeing
01 · The challenge
How can familiar bonds be maintained across extreme distances?
In the 2023 challenge, Red Providence focused on the isolation of a crew during an extended stay on Mars. Its proposal addresses emotional companionship.
02 · The solution
A digital assistant with familiar references.
Ayllu-EI proposes a tool based on open-source AI. The original page describes its design and purpose; it does not provide results from clinical evaluation.
Family personalisation
Family conversations and texts as references for the companion.
Companionship
Digital interaction focused on connection and emotional wellbeing.
The proposal focuses on preserving human references during isolation through a personalised digital companion.
03 · Earth-Back Thinking
From space isolation to companionship on Earth.
The project explores how conversational technology could preserve familiar references across distances and emotionally demanding contexts.
On Mars
Explore emotional companionship for a crew far from their families.
On Earth
Investigate potential uses in remote care, education and isolation.
Potential applications described by the team, rather than measured impact outcomes.
Historical project · 2023 edition
Red Providence
The team’s organisational vision focuses on AI serving people, communication and emotional wellbeing.
04 · Peru
The people behind the project.
9 members bringing different areas of knowledge to the same question.
Paul Josué Damián Sarro
Software engineering and intelligent systems
María de los Ángeles Arana Laya
Organisational and behavioural psychology
José David Sánchez Córdova
Software engineering
Luis Ángel Siroma Lozano
Communication and digital marketing
Marco Antonio Guerra Picón
Business engineering
Justo Víctor Alberto Arriola Sánchez
Mechatronics engineering
Herbert Johel Martensen Zapata
Software engineering and intelligent systems
Christopher José Villanueva Martínez
Data science and artificial intelligence
Jhefferson Albornoz Vara
Business engineering
Authorship, source and scope
Project and authorship: team Red Providence. Country: Peru. Edition: Reto Marte 2023. Recognition: national winners, according to the original Mars Challenge project page.
A descriptive presentation preserving authorship and source. It does not reproduce technical documentation or attribute clinical, radiological or commercial outcomes.
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