DATE: Thursday, February 26, 2026
FROM: 7:00pm-9:00pm EST
WHERE: Online
The Washington DC Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to present MCARE project director Robin Rowe. Professor Rowe will be discussing MCARE which was recently presented at Spacecom, the space travel conference in Orlando.
MCARE is the Star Trek holodeck for doctors, as implemented in a realistic 3D first-person game in the genre of Call of Duty. Instead of killing enemy combatants, MCARE player-doctors gain points for saving the lives of patients. Using real-world NHS patient treatment statistics, MCARE models patient outcomes based on the consequences of life-and-death decisions made by hospital staff.
MCARE is a learning game and a doctor telepresence system. Any doctor anywhere will be able to consult by accessing MCARE digital twins of all 52,000 hospitals in the world. MCARE was initially developed with a $1 million grant from Meta Facebook Reality Labs and currently under development by the AI research institute Fountain Abode. MCARE will be launching at scale in the $16 trillion healthcare market to transform telemedicine, clinical trials, doctor training and hospital logistics globally. MCARE will also launch as a fun video game.
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Biography – Robin Rowe
Professor Rowe is chief scientist of the AI research institute Fountain Abode based in Baltimore, and is CEO of Heroic Robots, the AI product foundry and publishing company. Rowe served as chief technologist and enterprise manager of the multi-billion-dollar engineering firm SAIC, founded their AI research lab.
Professor Rowe has led augmented reality learning game design at the World Health Organization (https://vimeo.com/1103805631).Rowe led AI design for ThinkReality AR glasses at Lenovo (https://vimeo.com/865872424). Rowe designed the real-time animation system at House of Moves, used to produce visual effects for many major motion pictures. Rowe manages several open source projects.
Professor Rowe has taught AI vibe programming at CCBC, Advanced C++ at the Naval Postgraduate School and Intermediate C++ at the University of Washington.
Former chairman UN ITU Medical Metaverse Task Group. Chairman ISO C++ Standard Group Low Latency Financial Systems Subcommittee. Chairman ANSI/ISO 56007 Innovation Idea Management Committee (Agile process applied to ISO 9001). Chairman The CFO Alliance Cyber Risks Subcommittee.
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