SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will inject 1.1 trillion won (US$999 million) into projects to develop autonomous driving technologies and establish related infrastructure by 2027, government officials said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy; the Ministry of Science and ICT; the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport; and the Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility, the transportation arm the country’s dominant mobile messenger operator, Kakao, plans to introduce an autonomous driving program for commercial use. The company said Sunday it will work with Autonomous a2z Co., a self-driving solution developer, to introduce an autonomous driving service in the government complex area in [...]
PADERBORN, Germany, and QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – dSPACE, one of the world’s leading providers of simulation and validation solutions, and LeddarTech®, a leader in Level 1 to 5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, have entered into a partnership to jointly drive forward the development of LiDAR technologies for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) [...]
PADERBORN, Germany, and QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – dSPACE and LeddarTech®, a leader in level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, have entered into a partnership to jointly drive forward the development of lidar technologies for autonomous driving. The close cooperation will enable dSPACE and LeddarTech to provide high-precision simulation models and interfaces for lidar [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean central government has joined hands with municipal governments, private companies and industrial associations to promote the activation of autonomous driving services through the standardization of self-driving data. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy signed a business agreement for the development and promotion of [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, announced Monday that it will be testing the indoor autonomous driving food delivery robot Dilly Tower at the company’s headquarters in Seoul’s Songpa District until May 29. Dilly Tower is synced to a local elevator, allowing it to call, [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, plans to introduce an autonomous driving overnight shuttle bus that will run between Baegot New Town, an under-construction planned community in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province and Oido Station on Subway Line No. 4. The company announced Thursday that it will team [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of delivery app Baedal Minjok, completed a test drive of autonomous driving delivery robots at Konkuk University from December 18 to 25. The robots covered a distance of 1,250 kilometers during the test period, succeeding in delivering a total of 2,219 orders. Robots operating [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Thursday it will unveil an upgraded autonomous concept car at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s biggest consumer technology-focused conference, in the United States next month. Hyundai Mobis plans to promote its fully autonomous M.Vision S concept [...]
QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LeddarTech®, an industry leader in providing the most versatile and scalable auto and mobility LiDAR platform, is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with First Sensor AG, a leading developer of advanced sensor solutions that is also now joining the Leddar Ecosystem. LeddarTech, with the support of First Sensor and other industry [...]