BARCELONA (EFE).— Over the years, mobile phones have lost ground at the conference that was originally organized in his honor, but now they are coming to a head: cameras with robotic arms, devices with three panels and AI every other present mark the edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) de 2026 in Barcelona.
The governing body GSMA reckons that the number of more than 100,000 expected attendees and 2,900 exhibitors may not be related to the telecommunications sector, but the new mobile phone releases, mainly driven by Asian brands, follow the call to be careful when you pass by the holiday, which has been celebrated in the Catalan capital for 20 years.
It’s not yet day, but it’s one of the sensations of the event: a phone that suddenly raises a small robotic arm equipped with an AI camera. It is the Robot Phone, from the Chinese company Honor.
This has different winds: more image stabilization — it is driven by this robotic arm and not by the user’s pulse —; the ability to rotate while tracking the target without having to move the phone, and the ease of defining settings that require some human contortionism.
Pop-up phones have become popular, doubling the size of your panel and allowing you to read a document or watch a movie more easily. Honor and Motorola are here for you.
Now, Samsung wants to be more powerful with its Galaxy Z TriFold model, which holds up to three panels and is cool enough to practically fit into a tablet size. If it is available in South Korea and the United States and it is available in Spain.
Until now, computing with AI elements on the phone was an extra task, but now it’s a design part of the device: it’s no longer an app if it’s part of the system. It is called IA Agéntica. For example, new Samsung models include Google’s Gemini 3, while Xiaomi integrates DeepSeek technology.
Examples of what we can do in the future: Remove washing machines? On your mobile phone and AI with the ability to navigate between applications, you will be able to directly purchase – and not just recommend the steps to follow – a spare part from a simple photo.
I’m sure you’ve tried to decipher what video a meter user is watching once in a while. Samsung also evaluated this and came up with a solution to combat impertinent targets: the Flex Magic Pixel system.
The phone panel also combines emissive pixels that are clearly visible from any location and other extremely emissive pixels that can only be distinguished from the front position. The trick is to pay when the broadcast is also appropriate to help the miracles.
On April 28 last year, a general message that hit the Iberian Peninsula left most citizens without communication, a problem that can be solved through satellite connectivity.
It is the team at Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite communications company, that is testing its system in Barcelona during this MWC. In this regard, the company explains that its service allowed up to 400,000 people not to lose communication during the devastating fires in Los Angeles last year.
Digital avatars
A Spanish start-up has developed digital avatars based on genetic data and biomarkers in collaboration with clubs such as FC Barcelona,Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain to improve injury prevention in elite football.
Catalan precision health company Made of Genes presented its Digital Twins project at Mobile World Congress, which uses artificial intelligence to transform biomedical data, GPS records and portable devices into a player’s “digital twin”.
According to company founder and CEO Laura Isús, the tool allows the technical body to “integrate genetic information, health indicators and workload into a single model” to “predict injury risk, adapt nutrition and adjust training and competition planning”.
The system also includes biomarkers based on organic technologies such as genomics, proteomics or metabolomics, common in the hospital environment, to translate elite advances in precision medicine.
The algorithms implemented differ by gender, given that “the pattern of injury differs between men and women” according to Isús, and are validated with data from professional soccer players in action.
Years in development, the project seeks to convert large volumes of data (genetic, epigenetic, biomedical, GPS and wearables) into actionable information through explainable artificial intelligence.
According to the doctor, this allows you to “personalize nutritional plans, prevent dynamic injuries and simulate different scenarios” to support the decisions of the technical body, always with clear and well-structured data to ensure that the algorithms are “safe”.
The red table included Liverpool first-team physical coach Jack Ade and Paris Saint-Germain head of innovation Ben Simpson, who agreed that the key to innovation at clubs was to “integrate data from different sources” and “increase player and coach acceptance” to make the new fixes effective.
On the other hand, the head of FC Barcelona’s medical field, doctor Gil Rodas, emphasized that the Catalan club has been working for “more than 15 years” in search of biomarkers that allow us to predict injuries and improve training planning, gradually incorporating advanced technologies used in hospitals.
Experts also highlighted the ability of “digital gems” to simulate different scenarios, such as training load or availability for parties, allowing them to make preventive decisions and reduce the risk of injury in professional football.
Project leaders pointed out that these digital models enable a more “proactive” focus on sports science, moving from pre-injury response to prediction and prevention, integrating physiology, biomechanics and genetics into a single system.
Similarly, Ade emphasized that the technology facilitates “real-time player monitoring”, combining data from portable devices, video analysis and motion sensing, allowing you to evaluate the internal and external strength of each soccer player in a personalized way.
I also found that integrating different data for gender is “key” and that recent studies show that men and women present different patterns of response to training and risk of injury, so algorithms adjust for these differences to improve the accuracy of data predictions.
The project also envisages collaboration between clubs and technical departments to share knowledge and best practices, “including Real Madrid”, said Rodas, with the aim of creating robust teams and stories that can be applied across different teams and competitions.
Xiaomi Hipercoche
Xiaomi exhibits a prototype electric backpack created for the “Gran Turismo” saga.
Aerodynamic
This futuristic vehicle in gray color with an aerodynamic appearance has a teardrop-shaped driver’s cabin and a halo-shaped tail light cabin. The Vision GT will not be available in the market.
Sportswear
However, the company showed the SU7 Ultra, a sports version of the car that will be launched.
Cars a la venta
Xiaomi has decided to sell more of its mid-size cars this year, introducing electric models like the YU7 and SU7.
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