SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Wednesday it had successfully completed a demonstration of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) service used for the real-time, simultaneous control and management of various facilities and robots of a smart factory from various parts of the world. The ETRI used [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The management performance of the small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) that introduced a smart factory in collaboration with large companies is stronger than other SMEs, a local business lobby group said. The Korea Federation of Small and Medium Businesses analyzed the performance results of the ‘win-win smart factory project.’ [...]
DAEJEON, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) said it will launch a trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) technology-based patent search system for its examiners on Friday. This service, developed in collaboration with Kakao Enterprise, can contribute to shortening the search time and improving the quality of examination by using [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp. said Wednesday that its in-house natural language processing AI model LittleBird-large grabbed the top spot in the performance test of the Korean machine reading comprehension dataset KorQuAD 2.0. KorQuAD 2.0 is a massive dataset of Q&As [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is pushing to develop insect-inspired microrobots capable of conducting covert reconnaissance missions in enemy territories, a state research institute said Monday. The five-year project worth 28.8 billion won (US$23.6 million) seeks to secure key technologies that enable ant- or bee-shaped robots to operate in a group for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea climbed to the first-tier group of countries last year in terms of how well its state policies for artificial intelligence are aligned with democratic values, a U.S. nongovernmental organization said Wednesday. In 2021, South Korea moved up by one notch to the first-tier group with 11 points, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Thursday it rolled out a new service that allows customers to enjoy Amazon’s voice assistant on its artificial intelligence speakers to better meet demand for English education. KT said it has joined hands with U.S. retail giant Amazon.com Inc. to launch the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Broadband Co., a major South Korean internet service provider (ISP), on Tuesday launched a new all-in-one platform that offers content from five streaming services, including Apple TV+. The company’s latest PlayZ platform allows users to search and watch media content from five over-the-top services, including homegrown players Wavve, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will speed up the development of urban air mobility (UAM) services. In 2020, South Korea unveiled its plan to commercialize UAM services by 2025 to help overcome urban traffic congestion by using unmanned drone taxis. Last year, SK Telecom signed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 107.6 billion won (US$90.1 million) this year to push ahead with a major project to build an artificial intelligence complex by 2024, the science ministry said Monday. In November last year, South Korea broke ground for a mass-scale construction project in Gwangju, 330 kilometers [...]