SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With compressors employed widely in the manufacturing industry, SK Telecom Co. is gearing up to commercialize a smart compressor that is expected to boost efficiency. The South Korea’s largest mobile carrier on Tuesday signed a business agreement with SungShin Compressor Co. and Soltech Co. to address the problems generated [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new delivery robot that can serve both indoor and outdoor environments as the South Korean tech giant tries to expand its competitiveness in the robotics sector. LG introduced its indoor-outdoor delivery robot at the 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots in Gangneung, [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of the country’s largest mobile messenger operator, Kakao Corp., said Tuesday that it has added a new feature to the Kakao Smart Speaker that allows users to customize voice triggers. Previously, the speaker has responded only to “Hey, Kakao.” Now, users [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced that its kiosk machine is now available in more countries as the tech giant eyes to bolster its self-service machine business amid the pandemic-induced contactless trend. Samsung Kiosk is now launched in 12 countries worldwide, including the United States, Britain, Spain, Australia and [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it has teamed up with U.S. call center technology company Genesys to launch a contact center service powered by artificial intelligence (AI). AI call centers have recently risen in popularity as they can reduce tasks handled by traditional call [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it was partnering with the Chungnam National University College of Veterinary Medicine to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based veterinary image diagnosis assistance solution. The AI-based solution is aimed at helping veterinarians with the diagnosis process by automatically decoding X-ray [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Sunday it has approved 53 projects with a budget of 85 billion won (US$75 million) this year in line with efforts to develop fully automated cars by 2027. Around 373 organizations and 3,500 experts are expected to join the research projects, according to the [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a digital X-ray detector (DXD) with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its presence in the medical equipment field. LG’s latest DXD was introduced at Arab Health 2021, the largest medical equipment expo in the Middle [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., a major South Korean wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will launch a virtual reality (VR) game for Facebook Inc.’s Oculus Quest devices in a move to bolster its presence in the VR sector. “Crazy World VR,” playable on Oculus’ Quest 1 and 2 devices, features a [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. is set to launch decentralized identifier (DID) service that uses blockchain technology to uniquely identify buildings as well as to diagnose the safety of dangerous structures. DID is a term used to describe an online-based electronic identification system that uses blockchain technology to manage the certificate [...]