SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread relentlessly around the globe, “untact,” or non-contact services are emerging as a new trend, and demand for robots to replace humans is also growing. The state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) said Thursday that service robots have been employed in public sanitation [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army is pushing to set up a research institute for next-generation technologies, such as artificial intelligence and drones to expedite the development of “next-generation game changers,” officers said Tuesday. The military recently launched a preliminary feasibility test on the establishment of its own research center and has been [...]
CHEONAN, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an airbag jacket that can prevent the sudden death of toddlers under 12 months old. More than two thirds of sudden deaths among toddlers involve choking while sleeping face down, and airbag jackets are there to prevent such cases. The Korea Institute of Industrial [...]
ULSAN, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an easier and safer way to register and manage pets. The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology said Sunday that its newly proposed multiple bio-recognition-based pet identification technology, jointly proposed by student startup Pireco with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), has [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Sunday it has joined hands with a Japanese telecommunication firm and a Taiwanese drone maker to develop smart drone solutions. Under a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s KDDI Corp. and Taiwan’s Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corp. (CIRC), LG Uplus will [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Group announced Thursday that it has successfully applied core technology for autonomous sailing to a large-sized vessel. The group installed Hyundai Intelligent Navigation Assistant System (HiNAS), a cutting-edge navigation aid system, on a 25-ton bulk carrier owned by local shipper SK Shipping [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT solution providers are introducing various artificial-intelligence (AI)-based solutions to help the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus, industry insiders said Thursday. LG CNS Co., an IT service unit under LG Group, said it has recently launched an AI-powered facial recognition entrance gate control system at its [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has introduced the country’s first commercial artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging analysis technology that can accurately determine the severity of pneumonia in a coronavirus patient. The MEDIP PRO Technology developed by MEDICAL IP, an AI medical imaging analysis firm, is currently being used in 24 countries around [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has developed a new port surveillance system with indigenous technologies that can better detect increasingly quiet submarines and other underwater moving objects, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The advanced maritime surveillance system, developed by the Agency for Defense Development with a 130 billio- won (US$106.6 million) [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Korea will allow carmakers to launch and sell a vehicle with basic Level 3 self-driving technology in the domestic market from July, many drivers are in favor of the measure. Under the initial standards, the Level 3 autonomous car, which is capable of keeping the lane in [...]