SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean researchers have developed a soft robot that can maneuver underwater by fluttering like a leaf, and is capable of reaching set destinations. A researcher team from Seoul National University Department of Mechanical Engineering imitated leaves, paper, and other light and thin objects that create various movements without [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team is drawing attention after developing a suture thread-type measuring sensor that can be implanted in the body. A joint research team from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced on Monday the development of [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry unveiled Thursday its plan to observe and map the moon’s surface in 2023 in its first lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft, set to be launched in August next year on U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, aims to reach lunar orbit toward the [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists are accelerating efforts to develop a visualization and machine learning technology-based platform aimed at greatly shortening the new material development period. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Wednesday that it had developed a platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
DAEJEON, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have announced the development of a new device that can measure plastic particles in water that are only nanometers in size. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced Tuesday that they had developed optoelectronic tweezers that can capture small particles underwater and conduct [...]
DAEJEON, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new technology that can detect food poisoning bacteria in real time using a semiconductor processing technology. The National Nanofab Center announced on Monday that it had developed technology to detect food poisoning bacteria using a nano structural body that was formed using the [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s next-generation midsized observation satellite successfully entered its target orbit and made its first contact with a base station on Monday, the science ministry said, marking the country’s latest step to boost its space industry. The 540-kilogram satellite made contact with the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway around [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin providing a real-time air quality map for the Korean Peninsula and neighboring areas to the public, utilizing data sent from Chollian-2B, its environmental satellite launched last year, the science ministry said Sunday. The new service, available from Monday, will provide data of seven types of [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The launch of South Korea’s next-generation midsized observation satellite, slated for Saturday afternoon at a space center in Kazakhstan, has been postponed, government officials here said. The 540-kilogram satellite, loaded on Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a, was scheduled to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:07 p.m. (11:07 [...]
DAEJEON, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) said Thursday that it had developed new technology that can quantitatively measure the degree of virtual reality (VR) sickness. Thus far, VR sickness has to be evaluated subjectively through questionnaires. However, the research team succeeded in [...]