SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Friday signed a partnership with a local food firm to expand the use of its artificial intelligence-powered services in kitchen appliances amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. The South Korean tech powerhouse joined hands with Dongwon F&B Co. so that more LG DIOS light wave oven [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday its experimental research group has signed a partnership with a local IT service firm on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies as the South Korean tech giant tries to expand its presence in human-like algorithm solutions. Samsung Technology and Advanced Research Labs, better known as STAR [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Post said Wednesday it has tested a self-driving mail delivery vehicle, joining the country’s race to introduce unmanned delivery services. The agency said it tested the vehicle, developed by PostCube Co., a local automatic postal service developer, at the Korea University Sejong Campus in the central city of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI), a producer of portable fuel cell power packs for drones, said Tuesday it will make inroads overseas to expand its presence in the power cable-checking system. To that end, DMI signed a preliminary deal with the Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI), a R&D subsidiary [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Robotics Co. said Friday it has joined hands with fried chicken franchise KFC Korea Co. to automate the chicken cooking process. Under the preliminary deal with KFC Korea, Hyundai Robotics, a unit of global shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co. (HHIH), will develop the automation [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has succeeded in greatly improving the learning speed of its voice-powered digital assistant Bixby by adopting Google Cloud. The Bixby service was upgraded in April with a new engine that enables a significant improvement in the speed of data recognition and the accuracy in learning results, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As the business appetite for cloud and remote work services grows amid the pandemic, South Korean telecom operators are expanding artificial intelligence (AI) services to help companies cope with the shift to new technologies. While the country’s three major carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Techwin Co., a major surveillance tech firm in South Korea, said Thursday it will start into the clerkless store solution business with its auto checkout (ACO) machine as the company expands its business portfolio amid the pandemic-induced non-contact trend. Hanwha Techwin said it decided to enter the unmanned [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Innotek Co., a major electronics components maker in South Korea, said Wednesday it has developed a high-efficiency ferrite core that boasts the lowest power loss in the industry. Ferrite is an iron oxide-based magnetic material used in TV power modules and chargers to switch voltages and filter noise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Caltex Corp., South Korea’s second-largest refiner by sales, is speeding up the development of a next-generation delivery service that combines drones and robots and is based at gas stations. The company held the nation’s first demonstration of the next-generation delivery service on Tuesday that features the combination of [...]