Google has a department called Google ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects), which has a relatively new project direction and is basically new at the sensor level.

Project Soli

Project Soli is a gesture recognition technology. The principle is similar to radar. By continuously transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals reflected by the hand, it can measure fine and complex motion changes, and then transcode analysis and recognition. After the popularity of this sensor, future electronic products There are more gameplays, as well as the game industry. According to reports, in 2017 Soli has iterated to a small chip and sold it.

Touch¨¦

Ivan Poupyrev, head of Google ATAP, once had a project called "Touch¨¦" that impressed everyone. Touch¨¦ can identify and distinguish the user's identity through capacitive fingerprints, and detect the electrical resistance of different individuals under AC power, and then create their own personal information database for each user, including bone density, muscle mass and clothing. Touche makes the common objects in our lives into sensors: door handles, bodies, plants and even water.

Project Tango

Project Tango's main field is computer vision. In terms of sensors, there are accelerometers, gyroscopes, fisheye wide-angle cameras, RGB cameras and depth sensors. It can be said that the future development direction of sensors may not be a single sensor, but a variety of sensor fusion. .

Smart Textiles

Smart Textiles is a fabric that embeds digital components such as batteries and lights (including small computers) and electronics. Smart Textiles is a fabric developed with new technology that provides added value to the wearer. Many foreign textile/fashion institutions already have such a course. For example, how to integrate emerging technology with clothing accessories more closely? In fact, many of today's basic sensors and actuators can be rebuilt with textile materials. Maybe this is the correct way to open the wearable, not the bracelet.

Project Jacquard

Project Jacquard weave the circuit metal and yarn together, the material can adapt to a variety of colors and thick fabrics. After such a cloth is completed, more than the remaining outgoing call line can be connected to the battery and the sensor, and the cloth embedded in the circuit can realize, for example, touching the cloth to adjust the volume of the mobile music player and the previous song, and touch I touched the sleeves and called.