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CES 2023: New robots will enhance quality of life and advance the positive impact robots already have on society

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The new robotic solutions unveiled at CES 2023 offer an all-in-one experience that covers agile home security and health alert system, flexible remote communication capabilities, and diverse home entertainment options. Aeolus Debuts Autonomous Dual-arm Humanoid Robot at CES At CES 2023, Aeolus Robotics introduced aeo, a dual-arm humanoid robot that provides new applications for a … Read more

From a Graphene Radiator To Blockchain Voting App, CES 2023 Recognized Its Best of Innovation Honorees

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The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.

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During CES Unveiled New York, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2023 Innovation Awards honorees, including those recognized as Best of Innovation honorees. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories. The CES 2023 Innovation Awards program received a record-high number of over 2100 submissions.

An independent panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers, and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation and functionality, aesthetic, and design. Those rating the highest across each category receive the “Best of Innovation” designation.

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The announcement was made ahead of CES 2023, the world’s most influential technology event.

Many honorees will showcase their product in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES, located in the Venetian Expo. Last month, CTA announced Innovation Awards honorees during CES Unveiled events in Paris and Amsterdam, including 28 products from France and 12 from the Netherlands. Those designated as honorees, including product descriptions and photos, can be found at CES.tech/Innovation.

CES has partnered with the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) to showcase the critical role of technology in support of the United Nations’ efforts to advance human security around the world. For CES 2023, CTA introduced a new category of Innovation Awards showcasing technologies advancing human rights. The Human Security for All category includes eight new tech subcategories.

Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2023 will take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 5-8, 2023 with Media Days taking place Jan. 3-4, 2023.

Attendees will experience new technologies from global brands, hear about the future of technology from thought leaders and collaborate face-to-face with other attendees. The show will highlight how innovations in sustainability, transportation and mobility, digital health, the metaverse and more are addressing the world’s greatest challenges. Audiences will hear from industry experts during live keynotes, including leaders from John Deere, BMW and AMD.

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The full list of Best of Innovation and all honorees will be announced during CES 2023. Best of Innovation honorees announced already include:

  • Canon AMLOS
    Company: Canon
    Product Category: Software & Mobile Apps.
  • Clean Water Pathfinder
    Company: ACWA Robotics
    Product Category: Smart Cities.
  • Cray X
    Company: German Bionic Systems GmbH
    Product Category: Wearable Technologies.
  • DFG-aided AI Surveillance Camera
    Company: Microsystems, Inc.
    Product Category: Smart Cities.
  • Dot Pad
    Company: Dot Incorporation
    Product Category: Accessibility.
  • Flexible Cover Window (FCW)
    Company: SK
    Product Category: Mobile Devices & Accessories.
  • Graphene Radiator
    Company: Graphene Square
    Product Category: Home Appliances.
  • John Deere Autonomous Tractor
    Company: John Deere
    Product Category: Robotics.
  • LG OLED Flex (Model 42LX3)
    Company: LG Electronics Inc.
    Product Category: Gaming.
  • LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro
    Company: LG Electronics Inc.
    Product Category: Computer Peripherals & Accessories.
  • Meta Music System for Streaming
    Company: Verses, Inc.
    Product Category: Streaming.
  • Samsung S3B512C Security Chip
    Company: Samsung Electronics America
    Product Category: Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy.
  • SF (Super Fast) Battery
    Company: SK
    Product Category: Embedded Technologies.
  • The AeviceMD
    Company: Aevice Health
    Product Category: Digital Health.
  • xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System
    Company: TBDX INC
    Product Category: Robotics.
  • Xplora X6 Play
    Company: Xplora
    Product Category: Wearable Technologies.
  • zkVoting
    Company: Zkrypto Inc.
    Product Category: Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy.
Graphene Radiator By @Graphene Square

Graphene Radiator By Graphene Square

The Graphene Radiator is a virtual fireplace that generates heat from graphene, the thinnest (one-atom-thick) and strongest material in the world. Recently discovered, its discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2010). And now, we bring it to use, where heat can be generated more efficiently with less space and 30% less energy.

@SF (Super Fast) Battery By SK

SF (Super Fast) Battery By SK

SF Battery is the world’s fastest charging electric vehicle battery commercialized. Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV 6 has the fastest charging performance in the world. These cars had been named numerous awards such as 2022 World Car of the Year, German Car of the year. This battery is manufactured by SK On, using Nickel 83% Cathode which is the highest nickel content. With the help of SK On’s fast charging protocol, this battery is charged from 10% to 80% within 18 minutes. Quick charging technology could cause vehicle fires; however, SK On’s has achieved zero number of vehicle fire.

@zKvoting By @zkrypto / Hanyang University – Best of Innovation Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy at @CES 2023

zKvoting By zkrypto / Hanyang University – Best of Innovation Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy at CES 2023

zkVoting is the first public blockchain voting app to utilize ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proof) technology. zkVoting leverages the trusted public blockchain ecosystem and ZKP technology to deliver the first voting platform that ensures absolute secrecy, guaranteed legitimate information without revealing voter identification and ballot content, and is resistant to adversarial coercion. With the intuitive and user-friendly zkVoting mobile app and accurate validation of ballot results, zkrypto is unleashing a new era for legitimate elections.

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Xplora X6 Play kids smartwatch By Xplora – Best of Innovation Wearable Technologies at CES 2023

Unlike other smartwatches designed for young children, Xplora’s new X6 Play provides children (4-11) with a safe onboarding to the digital world. The technology encourages a balance between screen time and physical activity while helping families stay in touch.

@Cray X Exoskeleton By @German Bionic Systems GmbH

Cray X Exoskeleton By German Bionic Systems GmbH – Best of Innovation Wearable Technologies at CES 2023

In an era of worker shortages, German Bionic is helping make manual handling jobs safer and thereby more appealing and inclusive, enabling businesses to better retain existing employees and attract new workers for physically demanding jobs. The Cray X is a fully-connected, powered exoskeleton for use in industrial environments such as in the fields of logistics, production and construction. It protects the lower back area by giving up to 66 lb (30 kg) of support per lifting movement as well as providing active walking assistance to prevent fatigue. The human-machine system thereby combines human intelligence with machine power.

@xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System by By @TBDX INC – Best of Innovation Robotics at @CES 2023

xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System by By TBDX INC – Best of Innovation Robotics at CES 2023

xBloom encapsulates the soul of specialty coffee in the world’s first whole-bean capsule. The coffee machine is a combination of engineering, design, and the art of coffee.

xBloom is packed with IOT-connected patented technologies, including auto-grind size adjustment, solid-state pouring system, and smart capsule dock. Roasters are empowered to curate and encode bean-specific recipes into the fully-compostable capsule’s RFID chip to deliver perfect grind size, temperature, and brewing ratios for every cup. Users can experiment with recipes through the xBloom app.

@Meta Music System for Streaming By @Verses, Inc. – Best of Innovation Streaming at @CES 2023

Meta Music System for Streaming By Verses, Inc. – Best of Innovation Streaming at CES 2023

Meta music system is a new streaming music service to meet users’ needs in the metaverse era.

You choose your favorite artists and music, and artificial intelligence helps you personalize artists and music that reflect your style and taste.

The ability to produce own unique artist and make individual music meets the needs of today’s consumers who want to express their personality and have controllability over what they like.

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The Future of Ageing: How design can support an ageing population – and indeed our own future selves –

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Curated with Design Age Institute, this free display at Design Museum in London is celebrating how design is transforming the way society can support everyone to age with greater agency and joy.

The Future of Ageing display. Photography by Luke O’Donovan; @The Future of Ageing at @Design Museum London

Discover how design can support an ageing population to meet their needs, interests and aspirations with greater agency and joy.

One thing we all have in common is that we are ageing, and many of us will live into old age. By 2040, more than a quarter of the UK’s population will be aged over 60. We are moving towards a future in which the population of older adults will only continue to grow.

The Future of Ageing display at Design Museum London celebrates how design can help us reimagine products, services and environments to enhance our experience of living in later life with a selection of prototypes, sketches and research from projects that are being developed by Design Age Institute and its partners.

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The Future of Ageing display, curated by Design Age Institute, based at the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with the Design Museum, explores how design can support significant demographic changes that point to a future in which there will be more older people than young. The display will be showcased in the atrium of the Design Museum until 25 September 2022. It aims to remind us that we are all ageing no matter our age and considers how design and innovation can meet the needs, interests, and desires of the older consumer with greater agency and even joy.

@Gita, Quayside, courtesy of @UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing

Life expectancy is increasing – a person born today is expected to live to around 104.

By 2040, over a quarter of the UK’s population will be over the age of 60, but over 70% of us will be fit and healthy with no need for social care or support. Almost all of us will be active online, and we are expected to spend over 20 percent less on healthcare and considerably more on recreation, culture, and travel. In the next couple of decades those of us aged over 55 will account for 63 pence of every pound spent in the UK, presenting a massive, untapped market for designers, retailers, and service providers.

Among them are ‘The Centaur’ – a self-balancing, two-wheeled personal electric vehicle for people with difficulties getting around, ‘Gita’ – a hands-free cargo-carrying robot, the ‘Home Office to Age in Place’ – created to integrate flexible living and working space for later life, and ‘Hearing Birdsong’ – a digital ‘audioscape’ app that uses the sound of birdsong to engage visitors with their hearing health.

#WeAreAllAgeing: Centaur, courtesy of Centaur Robotics.

The display showcases prototypes, sketches, and research from six design projects that are being developed by Design Age Institute and its partners.

The Centaur – a self-balancing, two-wheeled personal electric vehicle (PEV) for people with difficulties getting around, developed by Centaur Robotics Ltd. The Centaur aims to make supported mobility more accessible, more flexible, and more desirable and to spotlight the significant opportunity to expand the mobility market. “I want to end the social isolation resulting from reduced mobility. And I believe good design can do that,” said Paul Campbell, Design Director at Centaur Robotics.

Gita – a hands-free cargo-carrying robot made by Piaggio Fast Forward, creators of the iconic Vespa scooter. The UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing is now exploring Gita’s potential impact on the lives of older adults with user groups. “I didn’t expect to fall in love with a robot,” said one user this year.

Home Office to Age in Place – a project to develop integrated flexible working space in the home to allow independent working in later life. Home Office to Age in Place brings together experts in architecture, design for ageing and computing from Northumbria University, along with furniture designers from Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design consultancy. Co-created with users, Light-Block is a design concept by Pentagram for a mobile lighting, power and storage solution that allows any table to be converted into a proper workstation.

#WeAreAllAgeing: Growing Together Garden Project.

Light Block, Courtesy of Pentagram

Designing for Joy and We are all Ageing – two new specially commissioned two-minute films created with production company Chocolate Films will be displayed on large screens at the beginning and end of the visitor journey. The first film focuses on the role of design in meeting the needs of an ageing society and the second showcases five individuals creating new narratives of happy and healthy ageing.

Hearing Birdsong – an immersive digital audioscape created by Kennedy Woods that uses the sound of British birdsong to engage visitors with their hearing health. The Hearing Birdsong app aims to reduce the stigma associated with hearing loss and to support early diagnosis by creating an enjoyable experience that allows people to check their hearing in the privacy of their own homes.

Hearing Birdsong App prototype, courtesy of Kennedy Woods

Growing Together – a model exploring opportunities for a multigenerational garden at the Design Museum, a long-term participatory project which brings together local communities based in and around The Design Museum, to work alongside public works, a not-for-profit critical design practice that operates across architecture, art and design.

The Future of Ageing display. Photography by Luke O’Donovan;

Public programme

Immersive and participatory experiences have been designed into the display to invite visitors to question and challenge stereotypes and assumptions about later life. Visitors are invited to connect with the diverse stories of older communities and are prompted to consider their own ageing and future selves.

The display has been designed to engage new audiences from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives including design enthusiasts, students, academics, policymakers, and those interested in technology and innovation.

The design kollektiv (3D design) and Geoff Williamson (2D design) were briefed to create a robust, practical and portable unit that can transport the exhibition to touring venues around the UK. Plinth heights, routes and participatory elements have been designed in line with accessibility standards and the materials used have sustainability in mind.

#WeAreAllAgeing: Light-Block courtesy of Pentagram.

Colum Lowe, Director, Design Age Institute said: “The Future of Ageing display allows us to demonstrate how design and innovation can transform our homes, workplaces, cities, and neighbourhoods to support us as we age. Getting older is not a singular story of decline, loneliness, and hardship – it also includes wisdom, maturity, confidence, abundance, and adventure. The venue, scheduling, content, and display design will open up this dialogue to new audiences who possibly haven’t considered the challenges and joys of later life.”

Josephine Chanter, Director of Audiences at the Design Museum said: “As the world’s leading museum devoted to design, we’re delighted to collaborate with Design Age Institute to present six new research projects that are designed to improve our lives as we age. We will all face the challenges that come with ageing, so we hope all our visitors will leave inspired by how designers can enhance the quality of our lives regardless of our age.”

Paul Thompson, Vice-Chancellor, Royal College of Art said: “It’s laudable that the Design Museum is so prominently displaying this work from our Design Age Institute during the summer season, when visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to engage with innovative ideas and designs that will improve access and enrich lives as the average age of our population rises.

#WeAreAllAgeing: Hearing Birdsong. Photography by Luke O’Donovan
The Future of Ageing display. Photography by Luke O’Donovan;

Smart Homes of The Future – What We Can Expect to See

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This content is sponsored. When you think about what a luxurious home will look like in the near future, you can’t help but think of a smart home. Large mansions with historical art pieces and unique design is what we all expect by now. However, when you think of a home equipped with gadgets and … Read more

The Internet of Medical Things: Over 300 applications from Health start-ups for the 13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup

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  MEDICA is the world’s largest medical marketplace annually organised in Düsseldorf, taking place this year from 15 – 18 November. The countdown is on for the relaunch of the in-person version of the world-leading trade fair MEDICA at Messe Düsseldorf (running from 15 – 18 November 2021). Once again, there are many healthcare start-ups … Read more

Future Lab 2021: From automotive technology to space exploration and health, let’s take a look into the future

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    From debut unveilings to the latest technology developments, Future Lab at this year 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed is full of innovative exhibitors and is a must-see spectacle. Airbus Airbus returns to Future Lab in 2021 to present their latest Mars rover, built for the European Space Agency, which forms a critical part … Read more