Mobile World Congress news: 5G advances and more robotics | TECHNOLOGY

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) opened this Monday with the desire to recover the activity lost in the two years of the pandemic and with novelties with which to imagine the future, such as “low-code”, applications of the roboticsthe artificial intelligence and the progress of 5G.

Drive a Formula 1

“Low-code” is a simplified form of software development that requires little programming knowledge and can even allow you to drive a Formula 1 car with a simple computer program, according to the Japanese technology consultancy NTT Data and the Foundation. Mobile World Capital Barcelona.

Learn badminton remotely

Despite being injured and being in Madrid, the Spanish Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marín wanted to work as a teacher this Monday in Barcelona (northeast Spain), where the MWC is being held.

The Spanish operator Telefónica enabled the technology necessary for the player’s hologram to appear on stage in three dimensions.

It was possible through 12 Intel Realsense cameras, which generated 50 gigabits of information per second, processed in real time by high-performance software, all with the help of 5G.

A beer please

The Damm company exhibits a robot that is capable of grabbing a glass, placing it at the right angle under the beer tap to add just two fingers of foam, turning off the tap and depositing the drink on the bar, ready to drink.

Telefónica has developed something similar through its 5G Bartender project: a robot with waiter functions, which combines 5G connectivity and Edge Computing.

Drive a submarine 400 kilometers

Orange showed how, thanks to 5G technology, a small submarine can be controlled remotely and in real time 400 kilometers away, specifically, in the aquarium of the Spanish city of Valencia (east), with simple hand movements.

It is possible thanks to the super broadband of this French operator, which transmits the movement control commands, while receiving the images captured by the two cameras located in Valencia.

And to the ultra-low latency offered by 5G technology, which allows an immediate response to gestures made from kilometers away.

ethical artificial intelligence

Citibeats is an emerging company from Barcelona that offers its clients to collect data through artificial intelligence, but from an “ethical” perspective, that is, anonymously as much as possible and seeking to eliminate the “biases” that technology presents.

For example, in an analysis of thousands of tweets, only the content of the messages is kept and the use of personal data that is left visible on social networks is avoided.