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By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporter
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI, 工業技術研究院) yesterday said that it would unveil several innovations and technologies related to sports and fitness, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and information and communications technology at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES ) opening today in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This year’s show features 1,500 exhibitors from more than 158 countries and regions, said the Consumer Technology Association, which organizes the event.
The association expects 100,000 visitors to what would likely be the largest commercial exhibition in the US since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A total of 148 exhibitors from Taiwan are to showcase their latest innovations and technologies at the four-day event, the CES Web site says.
The National Science and Technology Council would be leading 96 Taiwanese tech start-ups to the show, it said last week.
One-third of the group includes start-ups focusing on research and innovation in digital healthcare, smart living, AI, cybersecurity and green energy, the council said.
Ten start-ups from the Taiwan Tech Arena start-up development center have won plaudits at this year’s CES Innovation Awards, the council said.
At its booths in the Las Vegas Convention Center, government-funded ITRI is to introduce sports and fitness innovations such as “iSportWear,” a wearable device that monitors physiological data, and provides health analysis and management during exercise.
It would also introduce “Digital Twin for Sport Guidance with Vital Sign Sensing,” the world’s first virtual coach for indoor bike and flywheel training. The device uses contactless detection technology to provide advice on breathing, biomechanics and coordination.
Other sports and fitness innovations include “iMetaWear,” a smart apparel that provides haptic feedback via multiposition electrical stimulation to create an enhanced metaverse experience for users playing virtual sports such as boxing and fencing, ITRI said.
Another new device is the “Athletic Armband for Contactless EMG Detection,” which is a capacitive electromyography athletic armband for continuous real-time measurement of electric signals from muscles without direct skin contact, the institute said.
ITRI’s latest products in AI, robotics, and information and communications technology are to include the “AI Aquarium,” the world’s first smart aquarium that helps identify marine life in real time; “Cubot One: Indoor/Outdoor AMR,” an autonomous mobile robot that can operate indoors and outdoors, ride on elevators and travel on rugged ground; and “RobotSmith,” an AI and robotic system for metal workpiece grinding and polishing, it was added.
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