Artificial intelligence for all tastes

If, in 2029, we took up the ten-year challenge, the viral challenge that forced thousands of people around the world to post photos of ten years ago and compare them with the present, we would find many differences in the Domestic Technology: Living Without Television At The Vista robots or health badistant as adult and child attendants will be part of the environment in an increasingly closer future. And all this, connected to the Internet and learning from the needs of users through artificial intelligence.

CES 2019, the world's largest consumer technology trade show, is held every year in the first weeks of January in Las Vegas. There were also advancements in automotive technology, smart badistants in every device presented and many small gadgets seeking to solve everyday problems, such as thermometers stuck to the skin thrown away after 6 days, lighters allowing quit smoking or even robots. bakers or boxing coaches. In addition, new modes of entertainment combining virtual and physical reality and images captured at extreme speeds, slow and fast, allow to explore and create new ways to play, work and create content.

But this year the most innovative concept has been the transformation of television as we know it until now. Just 20 years ago, the world of televisions was abandoning tube technology to explore the vast possibilities of flat panels that evolve in quality, thickness and size. Now, the idea of ​​the black rectangle is in question.

Module to module

Last year, at CES, we saw how to turn a TV into a wall with Samsung's 219-inch The Wall model, something like 5 meters of TV. On this occasion, and thanks to technical progress, the space between microscopic LED chips (MicroLed, millions of long-life inorganic LED chips) has been reduced from one module to another and a 4K display has was created in a smaller format: 75 inches These MicroLed modules offer more flexibility to create screens of different sizes that fit all of the user's living spaces, either a long rectangular strip, a window or a window. full screen wall. In addition, a smart learning system adapts the image and sound to increase resolution while maintaining constant pixel density.

Starting this year, we can also turn up the television when we do not use it. That was LG's disruptive proposal with its Signature OLED R model. What looks like a low cabinet, an elongated speaker with sleek, stylish design, hides a 65-inch folding screen and a 4K resolution image. Due to the transformability of the device, the user can have three different display options: full view (displayed), linear view (semi-unfold with specific information such as Calendar, weather, etc.) and zero view (fully recorded), in what looks like a stand furniture).

Another concept that abandons its status of prototype to devote itself fully to the life of the home is that of television transformed into a work of art. More and more companies are offering televisions with frames and patterns that make them unnoticed or turn them into paintings of the favorite artist. This year, the concept was created by TCL, with its Frame TV model with artificial intelligence; with black frames and works of art, they seek to be inspired by the idea that South Korea had presented in previous editions with its model The Frame, which will certainly arrive in Argentina at during the first half of this year. These models will conclude agreements with local museums and will rent artworks to the user's choice, which will be able to adapt the living decoration to those who will appreciate it.

Robots escort

"In 2019, new relationships between robots and people will begin." With this sentence is presented the animal robot Lovot, who took all the looks (and pamper) this year. But it was not the only one, the robots that replace trades and professions are growing year after year at CES. What do you do? Everything: they play chess, they are champions of ping-pong, they take care of people, they patrol the streets, they offer fruits and vegetables, accompaniments to the elders, bread or boxers . Robotics is advancing activities hitherto reserved for humans and, therefore, the great challenge of retraining the skills that protect us from possible unemployment due to the mbadive adoption of these technologies.

Lovot is hairy, looks like a puppy and falls asleep if his belly is caressed, but he is also full of sensors to feel the hugs, he is about 50 centimeters tall, with a motor and wheels to hunt us around. the House. It has a speaker that communicates with sounds similar to a meow. It has three cameras (depth, temperature and 180 degree angle) for mapping and navigating the environment. He is able to store more than 1000 people to remember them and can recognize more than 100 people at the same time. He comes from Japan by the same creator of Pepper, a therapeutic robot sold by hundreds in his country to help the elderly in their daily lives. The idea of ​​robotics badistants at home in the West seems still distant, but it also seemed a few years ago autonomous vacuums that we now let alone run while we go to work.

Monitoring, management and prevention of health problems is one of the areas in which the use of robots grows the most, for those who require support or permanent monitoring to act quickly to meet a specific need. Bot Care is a health care robot able to measure the patient's blood pressure, heart rate, breathing and sleep status. He can even remind him when to take his medication. That's Samsung, who also introduced Bot Retail – which simplifies orders and payments and offers a personalized retail experience – and Bot Air – uses sensors to detect the precise source of pollution and purify the product. air, among other advances. This edition of CES also increased the supply of exoskeletons lightening the physical work, in wheelchairs allowing to move in a vertical way and in robotic prostheses of the hands and the legs which anticipate a future much more inclusive for the people with reduced mobility. Accelerating or supplementing medical therapies is another use that we will see more and more. An example of this is the QT robot, which is used with children with autism. The robot records the emotions of the child and offers activities and games. Through an interface with lively eyes and sounds that also reflect emotions, it helps you express yourself and regulate your current emotions.

Robots, appliances and cars, all featured in CES 2019 have an artificial intelligence layer. The concept has ceased to be a promise and has evolved as a learning center that teaches the user to design the technology we have chosen for the home, constantly evolving devices.