SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to use urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles as an actual means of transportation during the 2030 World Expo if it hosts the event in the southeastern port city of Busan, the industry ministry said Monday. The organizing committee signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The designers of new buildings in major cities of South Korea are seeking to be prepared for the advent of urban air mobility (UAM), autonomous driving and robots. Last week, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport inaugurated a public-private alliance called Smart Plus Building Alliance. The government plans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of food delivery app Baedal Minjok, said Wednesday it has established a new company to sell and develop server robots, as demand for automated services grows in South Korea. The subsidiary called B-Robotics is wholly-owned by Woowa Brothers. The move came amid growing demand [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Tuesday that its researchers had developed a counter-terror anti-drone technology for use in urban areas. After finding that drone makers’ control function components have different electromagnetic sensitivity, the research team analyzed the sensitivity-maximizing frequency by drone brand. With [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it developed a new cell tower safety inspection system using drones and image analysis artificial intelligence (AI). The newly-developed image analysis AI model checks the status of nuts and bolts by analyzing images taken by drones. Cell towers with [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have made a breakthrough in the field of robotics, unveiling on Thursday a four-legged robot called Raibo that can walk quickly even on challenging terrain like sandy beaches. The research team developed technology that models [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it is launching an unmanned coffee robot service in collaboration with local collaborative robot manufacturer Doosan Robotics Co. The robot, dubbed AI (artificial intelligence) Barista Robot, can make about 20 different types of coffee and drinks, and offers coffee [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will launch a full-scale roll-out of a version of its CLOi robot that features a library-customized solution. The company recently supplied a public library of the South Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education in Changwon, some 400 kilometers south of Seoul, with one CLOi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — To fix or maintain blades of hundreds of large wind turbines at a vast wind farm, it probably takes much time and is dangerous as mechanics have to climb up to the tubular steel towers with a height of more than 100 meters and examine the blades one by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group announced the development of a next-generation delivery service robot on the basis of its electrification and self-driving technologies and launched a demonstration of the self-driving robot delivery service. Hyundai said Wednesday that the demonstration will be conducted at two sites, including a residential-commercial complex in Suwon [...]