The fact is that, with the effervescence of the modern world, it is increasingly difficult to find quiet urban environments to move around and, especially, to hold a conversation.
If you sit on a park bench to try to send an audio on WhatsApp, for example, you may encounter serious problems. The same logic applies to phone calls and other means of communication used in public.
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Inconveniently, there always seem to be people who can hear what you're saying or disrupt your conversation. It's really complicated!
To try to change this situation, robotics students at the University of Washington, in the USA, created technology that cancels external noise, promoting true sound hygiene.
More details about how this technology works
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In short, the effects of this innovative technology are carried out through small robots equipped with hypersensitive microphones and speakers.
With their device, the “little robots” capture and treat ambient sounds, identifying those that are considered undesirable. From this data, users controlling the robots can:
Choose sources of conversation or noise
Let's say you have access to these little noise-cancelling robots. With this, you could indicate to the equipment which sounds are desirable, as well as undesirable.
In this way, some noise sources would be allowed, others would be suppressed. This creates a kind of sound sectorization.
Create “quiet zones”
Following the logic of the option described above, the so-called “silent zones” are basically made up of certain types of sound “marked to be cancelled” by robots.
In this video You can see a practical demonstration of how this revolutionary technology works:
Finally, it is important to highlight that this technology is still in the testing phase and requires many improvements.
However, this is the prototype of yet another technology that could change the way we interact socially today.
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