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 [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will arrange events to encourage the development of technologies for cooperative autonomous driving. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will hold a cooperative self-driving week Monday through Friday, where it will conduct an infrastructure inter-compatibility test and demonstrate technology for a platoon driving system. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday that it will put autonomous buses into commercial service in its administrative hub of Sejong by 2023 as the government seeks to foster future vehicles as a new growth engine. The government will begin operating a bus with Level 3 autonomous driving technology in a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Wednesday it will invest US$50 million in a U.S. light detection and ranging (LiDAR) company for autonomous driving technologies. Hyundai Mobis has recently partnered with Velodyne Lidar, a world-leading LiDAR sensors provider, in order to mass-produce Level 3 autonomous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Monday it has developed an artificial intelligence-based autonomous driving technology and will apply it in its models. The South Korean automaker has developed the smart cruise control-machine learning (SCC-ML) technology, in which the vehicle analyzes the driver’s driving patterns and allows partial autonomous driving under [...]