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SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority announced that T-Safer, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based traffic accident risk forecast system, will be rolled out across national highways on Thursday. T-Safer was jointly developed by the two agencies. It is an AI-based system that uses [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of South Korean scientists has completed the development of key testing equipment for SPHEREx, the world’s first all-sky spectral space telescope being constructed under the leadership of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday. The team led by Jeong Woong-seob [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday it has been chosen as a preferred bidder for spearheading the development of low-observable, formation-flying unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) by the state-run military research agency. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) recently finished the basic design for the formation-flying, unmanned aircraft after [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the sluggish growth of the global display market, OLED sales remained solid in the second quarter of this year, justifying the shift that Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., South Korea’s two largest display makers, have made towards OLED-centered ventures. Global OLED panel revenue grew by 12 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean defense companies are making forays into the development of military robots as their new growth engine. Hyundai Rotem Co., a train and defense company, has launched a drive to develop a multi-legged counter-terrorism robot that is expected to be commercialized by 2024. With four legs, the robot [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. said Tuesday it has established research and development (R&D) centers in the United States and Germany in a bid to bolster its technological competitiveness through regional collaboration. It formally launched its first U.S. research institute in Boston on Monday (U.S. time), following [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday announced the global launch of Odyssey Ark, the latest and most high-end model of the company’s Odyssey gaming monitor lineup aimed at delivering a premium gaming and movie-viewing experience for users. According to Samsung, Odyssey Ark is the world’s first 55-inch 1,000R curved gaming [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it aims to select a site for a semiconductor packaging plant in the United States as early as in the first quarter of next year. Earlier in the day, Reuters reported that the world’s second-largest memory chip maker aims to invest billions of dollars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Friday it will spend US$424 million to build an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in the United States to bolster its edge in robotics technology, an area it cites as a key future growth driver. Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Corp. and Hyundai Mobis Co. — [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., a tank and train-making affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, has clinched an order for the development of a multi-legged robot for military use for the first time in South Korea. The company announced on Thursday that it signed an agreement with the Defense Industry Technology Center [...]