Intel Corp is aggressively promoting its 3-D camera technology in China as the company is stepping up efforts to catch up with Qualcomm Inc in the mobile chip sector and preparing for opportunities brought up by the internet of things.

Ian Yang, president of Intel China, said on Wednesday the company is teaming up with a string of Chinese companies to apply the RealSense technology to various products, ranging from computers, tablets and robots to drones.

"RealSense 3-D camera can give machines 'human eyes', which can see the distance between objects and separate objects from the background layers behind them, thus producing better object, facial and gesture recognition than a traditional camera," Yang said.