It closed on January 9th International Consumer Electronics Fair, better known as CES. And like every year, the pavilions of the Las Vegas Convention Center have projected visitors and press officers into the future. The novelties shown, in fact, were different and there was no shortage of surprises.
The cars of tomorrow
The main protagonist at CES, the real star of the event, was the automotive sector. Technology and the car have now become a single body, in continuous and constant change. And autonomous driving is becoming a real reality. Audi, Mercedes, Ford and all the other giants exhibited their models with the robotic driving system. Fiat-Chrysler has also created a vehicle with the possibility of entrusting the steering wheel to artificial intelligence. A real gem that has attracted the attention of the media. It is in fact a futuristic car in all respects. Electric (about 400 km on a full charge) and able to interact with the smartphone. In fact, we will be able to pay for parking or gasoline through the panel on the dashboard, or close the car directly with the app on the mobile phone. According to the Turin-based company by 2018 Portal (this is the name chosen for the car) will be placed on the market.
Living in the future
At CES space also for domestic news. LG has indeed presented Robot Hub, an assistant capable of communicating with all electronic systems in the house. Thanks to it, via smartphone, it will be possible to open the door, turn on the light, control the heating and much more. Is in the kitchen? The fridge InstaView Door-in-Door is an appliance equipped with artificial intelligence. It will be able, among other things, to check the expiration date of various products and to order them on Amazon automatically when they are about to run out. Absurd, don't you think? And if we feel lonely, don't worry, he thinks about it Kuri. Created by Mayfield Robotics, Kuri is a small "companion" robot. His job will be to remind us of appointments, check home and tell us some stories. So, just to talk to someone.
The other news of the CES
Do you like to dance, but are you a mess? Maybe what you need is Lynx. A small robot capable of playing music, but also of dancing and teaching us a few steps. Not just dancing, but even some yoga exercises. If anything we should realize that we are really denied with the dance.
Another interesting object on display at CES was pudding. A robot to help children during the early stages of learning. His system is in fact programmed to teach to read and correct any pronunciation defects.
Of course, these were not the only news in Las Vegas. Among the latest generation televisions, increasingly powerful PCs and drones capable of going hundreds of meters underwater, there is material for writing entire books. And among the many giants there was no shortage of small surprises such as ON, Giuseppe Pinto's portable turntable.
