SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “No” and “it shouldn’t” were the answers by global scholars on artificial intelligence during Monday’s press conference for the 2016 International Judicial Symposium. The press conference featured Oren Etzioni, Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber-Security Lab at University of Louisville, [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States will spend a combined US$6 million on a joint research project to develop robotic technologies for disaster response over the next three years, the trade ministry here said Tuesday. Officials from the two governments, including South Korea’s Director General Kim Jeong-hwan and U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Oksu Elementary School became the first in the country to establish a “virtual reality gym class”, allowing students to engage in sports activities using VR technology. According to a school official, the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) helped remodel one of the classrooms at Oksu Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The painful March defeat of baduk prodigy Lee Se-dol to Google’s DeepMind project AlphaGo urged Korea’s leading corporations to gather together to spearhead an artificial intelligence project of their own, leading to the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), which was announced Tuesday. The project was led by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government and tech giants said Tuesday they will work together to create a variety of cultural and entertainment content using virtual reality (VR) technology to foster the new growth engine. Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Ltd. have been working on VR gadgets to link them [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will spend a total of 500 billion won (US$450 million) in the coming five years to foster the robot industry as a new growth engine for Asia’s fourth-largest economy, the trade ministry here said Tuesday. “The robot industry has emerged as a new technology frontier that will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists has developed new battery material, the science ministry said Monday, in what could bring significant changes to mobile devices and electronic cars. The team led by Kang Jeong-ku of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) discovered a hybrid type of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will invest more than 400 billion won (US$358 million) over the next five years in developing new virtual reality (VR) products and narrow its technology gap with global leaders, the government said Friday. The plan will focus on developing new and indigenous VR technologies and fostering the [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team from KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has developed a self-sealing hemostatic needle that won’t make you bleed after it’s used, taking advantage of one of Korea’s most popular mariculture products – mussels. The team leveraged the exceptional ability of mussels to attach [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co., an affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co., has registered for a patent on technology to develop bendable displays in the United States, industry sources said Tuesday, implying a possible launch of foldable smartphones sometime soon. The panel-making affiliate of the South Korean tech giant filed a patent [...]