SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – RobotWorld 2024, South Korea’s largest robotics industry exhibition, opened on October 23 at KINTEX in Goyang, marking its largest edition yet in its 19-year history with 291 companies and institutions participating across 880 exhibition booths.
The four-day event, organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and co-hosted by the Korea Association of Robot Industry and Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement, places artificial intelligence-powered intelligent robots at the forefront of this year’s showcase.
In alignment with the government’s Export Boom-Up Korea initiative, the exhibition features export consultation meetings and overseas market entry strategy seminars to boost the country’s robotics exports.
Visitors to the exhibition can witness remarkable demonstrations of AI-integrated robotics.
A humanoid robot developed by A Robot showcases its AI-based voice and object recognition capabilities by delivering candies of specific colors upon verbal requests, highlighting potential applications in manufacturing and service industries.
Robotis is displaying an indoor delivery robot that expands its autonomous navigation capabilities by using vision AI and robotic arms to operate elevators and security doors.
Meanwhile, Integrit is introducing a hotel service robot that assists with guest check-outs through conversations powered by large language models (LLM), similar to ChatGPT’s operating system.
The exhibition also spotlights companies that have successfully developed domestic alternatives to crucial robot components.
Tesollo is demonstrating a gripper that adapts its shape according to target objects using vision AI, while SPG is introducing locally developed reduction gears for various robots, including industrial robots and humanoids.
The ministry aims to increase the localization rate of five core robot components to 80% by 2030.
“Robotics represents a future growth engine that will drive our next generation of exports,” said a ministry official, adding that the government will actively pursue policy support through initiatives such as the AI Autonomous Manufacturing Leading Project, Humanoid Initiative, and a comprehensive revision of the Intelligent Robots Act.
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