SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to develop appliances that can recycle used batteries. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced Monday that it will invest 13 billion won (US$11.7 million) to develop technology for recycling used batteries by 2024. Batteries used for electric vehicles (EVs) and other appliances will become [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI), a producer of portable fuel cell power packs for drones, said Tuesday that it has teamed up with the local shipbuilding and marine ICT provider Marineworks to develop a solution to control ships’ sailing by using drones. The two companies will develop an electric marine [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean developer of a controversial female chatbot said Friday it will discard all data and learning algorithms used in training the artificial intelligence (AI) platform amid mounting criticism over its data collection process and hate speech. Scatter Lab, a Seoul-based startup, said it has decided to pull [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of factories in South Korea have adopted smart solutions based on cutting-edge technologies to improve manufacturing efficiency, government data showed Thursday. A total of 19,799 smart factories were registered in the nation till the end of 2020, up from 12,660 in 2019 and 7,903 in 2018, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Today’s chatbots are smarter, more responsive and more useful in businesses across sectors, and the artificial intelligence-powered tools are constantly evolving to even become friends with people. Emotional chatbots capable of having natural conversations with humans are nothing new among English speakers, but a new controversy over a South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The creator of a social media-based artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot said Monday that it will temporarily suspend the service amid growing criticism over its use of discriminatory and offensive language. Lee Luda, the Facebook-based messenger chat, developed by Scatter Lab, a startup in Seoul, has been at the center [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it will feature a virtual human as a speaker at the world’s largest tech expo next week as the South Korean tech powerhouse aims to show off its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. LG said an artificial human, named Reah Keem, will deliver a three-minute [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce future technologies that can deliver personalized experiences to people and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a better home life at the upcoming global tech expo, its research chief said Wednesday. Sebastian Seung, who heads Samsung Research, said the South Korean tech giant will share [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — New CCTV cameras and surveillance system are capable of detecting fires, break-ins, and school violence. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) conducted a joint demonstration project with the Ministry of Science and ICT to verify CCTV capabilities in monitoring various disasters and school safety. In the field of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — TOADS, a local tech startup that participated in the region’s software service commercialization support project, received a Ministerial Award in the competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency said Wednesday. The company has developed and is preparing to commercialize a virtual [...]