Robots as Waiters at China

Many restaurants in China today is opting to save on employee wages by forgoing traditional servers and using robots instead. According to them, even though the costs of robots are expensive, but it's will reduce the cost of labor in the future. The robots can ferry to foods to tables, while other animatronic staff help to prepare foods in the kitchen, but it's just can perform straightforward task such as squirting cooking oil into pans.

The automated robots' take orders, and even speak to customers with a 40-phase Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Each machine travels through the small eatery using an optical sensing system that designed to keep them from running into walls or people. The robots also have a lifespan of about five years and run on a rechargeable battery that lasts up to eight hours.

According to the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA), China is now the world's largest consumer of robots, after overtaking Japan. Oxford University also released a study which said that 47% of the US workforce could be replaced by robots over the next two decades.

Source: www.ibtimes.co.uk
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Smart Lens

The new technology to manage human diseases and conditions, called smart lens which is can help to improve the quality of life for millions of people today. This lens involves non-invasive sensors, microchips and other miniaturized electronics which are embedded within contact lenses. This non-invasive sensor will help the patients detect the glucose in their body and the chips and antenna will send the information to the users.

This technology is currently focused in two areas:

• Helping diabetic patients manage their disease by providing a continuous, minimally invasive measurement of the body's glucose levels via a "smart contact lens" which is designed to measure tear fluid in the eye and connects via wireless with a mobile device.

• For people living with presbyopia who can no longer read without glasses, the "smart lens" has the potential to provide an accommodative vision correction to help restore the eye's natural auto focus on near objects in the refractive cataract treatment.

Sources: www. narvatis.com 

               Youtube, Smart Lens

              

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Smart Ring ZERO by LOGBAR

Ring ZERO is the one of the amazing technology that created by Logbar Inc. which is can help the users do a whole host of futuristic tasks via gesture controls and a tiny touch sensor.

The description of how the device works is straightforward enough for the users and a simple gesture will make it's friendly to use at home. The users just need to put on their index finger, tap the small button on the device and start gesturing their finger in the air to do things like take a photo, control your phone's music player, write a tweet, turn on your TV and check the weather, among many other things. This kind of smart ring can connect to your smartphone, Google Glass or smartwatch via Bluetooth.

The users also can set their own custom gesture for their ring and can adjust the size of the zinc-coated ring and a battery stand that just looks similar to a finger. The ring also had a lithium-polymer battery which is can last 1-3 days with continuous use and 18 days on continuous standby and just need to take three hours to fully charge.

Source: www.digitaltrends.com

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Touchscreen Interface

The researchers at Fujitstu laboratories had created something new for the next generation user interface which allows the interface to detect the user's finger when users touch the screen. Many objects could be manipulated by touching that screen which is more like an ordinary webcam and a commercial projector. The capabilities of this interface can be achieved through image processing technology. 

The users can simply import the data from selected document and then they need to highlight the important parts of the document that users want to collect using this touchscreen interface. Basically, this touchscreen interface is able to measure any shape of a real world objects and then it adjusts the coordinate systems for the projector, camera, and real world. On top of that, the objects with curved surfaces can also be coordinated just by touching.

This system combining both analog operations and digital devices so that it can be operated when user point with their one finger only. The system would need to detect the fingertip height exactly as well in order to have the touchscreen interface detect touches accurately. If the finger detection is off just by a single pixel, the height of images will change by 1 cm. Besides that, this kind of interface also has a technology which is  the system enables to control the color and brightness in order to get the quality of images as required by users.

Source: Youtube, DigI Info TV

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Virtual Dressing Room

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