Intel robot's new trick, wireless music and other research goodies
Researchers from Intel's Seattle lab affiliated with the University of Washington are showing up in more of the company's lighthearted ads showcasing scientific advancements.
Research Projects
Personal Robotics
The Personal Robotics project is a collaborative effort of Intel Labs Seattle, Intel Labs Pittsburgh, and our colleagues at University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. One driver for the project is the "business hypothesis" that the robotics industry today is at a point analogous to the Personal Computing industry of the early 1980s, and that in the next decade the number of Personal Robots deployed in unstructured environments likes homes could grow dramatically---if the right enabling technologies and "killer applications" are developed.
Louis LeGrand of Intel Research Seattle shows a robotic arm that uses a camera and an electric field to sense an object before grasping it.
Marvin can plug himself in now - taken at Intel Labs Seattle open house by Seattle Times' Brier Dudley
Everyday Behavioral Monitoring
The Everyday Behavioral Monitoring (EBM) Project seeks to enable wide-scale adoption of technologies that sense, model, and support the user in everyday activities. The project develops unobtrusive wearable devices and algorithms that can discern between activities such as running and climbing stairs, cooking dinner and working on a computer.
Technology for Long-Term Care (TLC)
Technology for Long-Term Care (TLC) is a validation project aimed at showing that sensor-based monitoring of elder activity can reduce the cost of care in two ways. First, caregivers may check elders' status remotely and therefore avoid the overhead and intrusion of physical presence. Second, elders themselves may perform day-to-day activities more regularly because the monitoring system reminds them to do so.
Trustworthy Wireless
Wireless communications are becoming ubiquitous and personal as networked devices such as mobile phones, handheld PCs, cameras, music players, and health monitors are increasingly part of the everyday computing environment. In this setting, it is vital that people can use these devices with confidence and without leaving behind "digital footprints" of their identities and activities that can later compromise them. The Trustworthy Wireless Project, under the direction of Ben Greenstein, aims to eliminate the privacy concerns associated with wireless protocols.
Trustworthy Wireless Research in Seattle
Wireless Resonant Energy Link
The goal of the WREL project is to cut the last cord---the power cord. Building on principles proposed by MIT physicists in 2006, the WREL team recently lit a 60W lightbulb at a range of several feet and very high efficiency---around 70%. The demonstration received extensive news coverage.
Alanson Sample, a University of Washington electrical engineering graduate student who works in Intel's Seattle research lab, demonstrates the Wireless Resonant Energy Link project.
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