DAEJEON, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said Wednesday that it had developed an integrated disaster warning and alert platform and an on-site customized situation dissemination platform in an effort to ensure fast and accurate transmission of disaster information. The integrated disaster warning and alert platform is capable of sending [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An affiliated company of Hancom With is set to sign a contract with an artificial intelligence composer and to issue its intellectual property on the non-fungible token (NFT) market this month. Hancom Artpia said Thursday it will join hands with Enterarts, an AI-based content production company, to put the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Semiconductor Co., a South Korean mid-sized light emitting diode (LED) manufacturer, has won a lawsuit filed by a U.S. patent management company that has been accused of being little more than a patent troll. The company on Tuesday said it obtained a favorable judgement in a patent lawsuit [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the public’s distrust of charitable organizations, blockchain technology that is safe from forgery and modification is emerging as a solution to address such suspicion. The amount of donations collected at Cherry, a donation application released in December 2019 by startup E4NET Co., reached 2.6 billion won as of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Robotics Co. said Thursday it has produced an unmanned modular robot cafe in cooperation with Folletto Robotics, a local unmanned beverage manufacturing system maker. Doosan Robotics is a subsidiary wholly owned by Doosan Corp., a holding company of Doosan Group, South Korea’s 15th largest conglomerate by asset. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — System integrator Doosan Logistics Solutions Co. (DLS) said Tuesday it has signed a deal with a local autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturer KN to provide more logistics robots. “As orders for AMRs have increased in recent months, we have diversified the supply chain of AMRs to meet growing demands [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Moves are afoot for the introduction of South Korea’s first self-driving library robot that autonomously moves around a park to lend books to citizens. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry had held a deliberation committee meeting regarding regulatory sandbox measures, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Many serving robot businesses have been found to import Chinese-made serving robots and misrepresent them as being their own product. Industry insiders reported that more than 70 percent of all serving robots in South Korea are Chinese-made. Among local manufacturers, LG Electronics Inc., Hyundai Robotics Co. and Robotis have [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s standard agency announced that it will enact two types of Korean Industrial Standards (KS) with respect to indoor robot deliveries and their safe use of elevators. The Korea Agency for Technology and Standards unveiled such plans at an international forum on robot technology and standards held at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday tested a German two-seater multirotor aircraft in Seoul as it seeks to commercialize urban air mobility services in 2025. The two-seater multirotor aircraft took off vertically and flew to a designated air corridor before returning to the starting point at Gimpo International Airport in western [...]