Wires haveno place in Intel's vision of the future. The company showed off developments in wire-free power transmission using a Wireless Resonant Energy Link -technology that transmits power without cords. It also shared its vision of coming decades full of robots, rapidly accelerating technology, and morphing gadgets that are whatever you want them to be.
Rattner said: "The industry has taken much greater strides than anyone ever imagined 40 years ago. There is speculation that we may be approaching an intonation point where the rate of technology advancements is accelerating at an exponential rate, and machines could even overtake humans in their ability to reason, in the not-so-distant future,"
Cutting the Cord
Perhaps the most practical of the concept products Intel debuted the Tesla-esque Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL) could enable users to recharge their laptops or mobile handsets simply by being in proximity of a transmitter. The technology consists of a source antenna and a device antenna, According to Kurs "A special-purpose circuit takes power from a regular wall outlet and uses that to excite electric currents in the source antenna. Those currents generate electromagnetic fields and the device antenna captures some of the power contained in them and feeds it to the gadget that one is interested in powering," he explained. Intel's version of the technology consists of two parts.
On 1 side is a transmitter, comprised of a dry loop and resonator with a coil and transmits energy. On the other side is a receive resonator and pickup loop, through which the device acquires the energy, said Sample. While researchers are still looking at form factors, usage models and extending the technology's range, no plans have been made to bring the technology to market, Sample told TechNewsWorld. However, WERL could be suitable to power household appliances such as refrigerators, lamps and televisions, Kurs said.
The Futures cape
Intel researchers are also looking at the uses of programmable matter, or "catoms"- micro-robots that can be used to build shape-shifting devices. Developed by research at Carnegie Mellon University, catoms, short for "claytronics atoms," were designed to form large-scale machines and mechanisms. They can be programmed from many different devices. The company is also researching a silicon technology that will extend Moore's Law for another 10 years or more. Researchers are investigating how to move beyond planar transistors to 3-D transistors, and exploring compound semiconductors as a way to replace silicon in the transistor channel.
The chipmaker also showed off two robot prototypes. Using a robotic hand, Rattner demonstrated the company's electric field pre-touch technology. Modeled after the sensing modality of fish that enables them to "feel" objects before they touch them, the technology gives robots the sense of touch. The second robot demonstrated technology that enabled it to recognize faces as well as interpret and execute generic commands with state-of-the-art motion planning, manipulations, perception and artificial intelligence.
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