SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will be testing autonomous food delivery robots until November of next year. The project will deploy 11 robots of three different types for the 18-month testing period. Following this month’s preparatory phase, indoor delivery robots will be deployed in August to engage [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to install artificial intelligence (AI)-based CCTV cameras at major railway stations aimed at detecting any occurrence of crimes and reporting them instantly to the police. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Wednesday it will contract a research study for the installation of anti-crime AI [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a pilot program in which robots are being used to automate repetitive and standardized tasks. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on Wednesday the launch of a pilot program that will introduce so-called Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at several ministries and agencies. The [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering Co., a plant engineering affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, has announced the development of a Smart Parking Address Tool (SPAT), an automatic parking navigation service that detects the location of a driver’s car within an apartment complex and notifies the driver. The company combined Hyundai Engineering & [...]
POHANG, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An automatic stop technology has been developed to prevent forklift collisions. South Korean steel giant POSCO said it had developed the automatic stop technology for forklifts in collaboration with the Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology, Posco Group’s Future Technology Research Institute and local small and medium companies. [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will open an online dance studio on its metaverse platform ifland in collaboration with dance studio/management agency 1MILLION Dance Studio. “One Million Land” is the second achievement of the metaverse culture project that SK Telecom has been carrying [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military has developed self-driving technology that enables vehicles to navigate through unconventional, rough terrain, a state-run defense research agency said Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) technology allows cars to analyze and identify drivable areas based on “training data” collected from test runs, and control their navigation even [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, said Monday it has partnered with an Italian defense company to cooperate on the export of an advanced radar system as it eyes to further expand its overseas foothold. The memorandum of understanding signed with [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The state postal service Korea Post said Thursday it will commercialize advanced information and communication technology-based self-driving unmanned post collection and delivery service from next year. To realize autonomous delivery service on the basis of new technology such as 5G, big data and AI, the agency has invested about [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday it had signed a two-year deal with SOS Lab, a specialist in solid state light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, to promote cooperation as part of efforts to accelerate the development of mobile robots. At present, SOS Lab sells high-resolution 2D/3D LiDAR for use in industrial robots and [...]