Exoskeletons and AI cocktails: A walk through this year’s CES

A number of items revealed on the CES flooring accommodated fixing concerns in healthcare and sustainability. Nuvilab’s AI nutrition scanner is a gadget that intends to do both. The scanner, which appears like a little tablet screen and a video camera, utilizes AI image processing to examine the quantity of food being taken in and lost in dining establishments and industrial kitchen areas. It can likewise reveal the dietary material of a plate, like calorie consumption.

While the item is meant for any business cooking area to suppress food waste, the dietary material scan is indicated to be handy for locations with a concentrate on serving healthier meals like long-lasting care centers, schools and health centers.

Innovation for physical treatment and physical fitness likewise debuted at CES. WIRobotics and Innophys displayed their wearable robotic matches. WIRobotics showed a robotic that straps around a user’s waist and legs to help in strolling, running or working out for those who discover it progressively challenging. Innophys’ “wearable exoskeleton” muscle match connects to a user’s back to reduce tension from labor-intensive activity.

PalmPlug is another piece of innovation wanting to alter the future of physical treatment, however specifically curated for stroke victims. Its sensing unit innovation is constructed into a little glove that twists around the wrist and fingers. A screen discovers the hand and triggers motions through video games and piano lessons, making physical treatment more amusing.

“You can use this innovation in video gaming and in health, sports, AR and VR, so much, however we’re beginning with healthcare,” Olaoluwa Adesanya, creator and CEO of PalmPlug, stated. “So actually beginning with what’s broken.”

Augmental’s MouthPad ^ took home the award for “Best Pitch” at CES 2024. MouthPad ^ is a retainer-like gadget that permits users with handicaps to manage their touchscreens utilizing their tongues.

It would not be a tech convention without a couple of fancy creations that look more like sci-fi props than real-world developments. The Holobox by Holoconnects is a gadget high and large sufficient to predict a full-body 3D holographic picture of a private from throughout the world. While daily customers may not have an usage for it, business can utilize it for keynotes and conferences. The United Nations has actually even utilized package to bring coworkers to the U.N. flooring for conferences, Holoconnects employee stated.

The CES flooring was filled with gizmos made for enjoyable and benefit. The South Korean robotics huge Doosan, in collaboration with Microsoft, provided some AI-crafted mixed drinks for CES participants this year. The business’s robotic bartender utilizes AI to evaluate everyone’s facial expression and produce a bespoke mixed drink based upon the consumer’s state of mind.

Another exhibition worked up fresh ice cream utilizing a can and its ColdSnap maker. It serves as a “Keurig for ice cream” and can produce soft serve in 2 minutes from any home cooking area.

Handwrytten is reviving old-fashioned letters and cards in a brand-new method. Its robotic hand can duplicate human handwriting utilizing AI, offering users the capability to type up a message for their handwritten notes.