SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store items now can be delivered to pensions, a type of Korean accommodation similar to a bed & breakfast, in a fast and convenient manner by drones. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Wednesday held a demonstration event for a convenience store drone delivery service in [...]
INCHEON, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Gas Corp.’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Incheon, the world’s largest LNG storage and supply facility, on Thursday held a demonstration of an anti-drone system designed to respond to drone terrorist attacks. When an unidentified flying object appeared near the LNG terminal, a 1.9-meter-wide, 0.5-meter-tall hydrogen-powered [...]
WOODINVILLE, Wash., April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Freefly Systems Inc. an American corporation that designs and manufactures the world’s toughest drones, today announced that the Freefly Systems Alta X unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been approved as a trusted drone platform after successfully completing the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Blue sUAS 2.0 [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop new communications technology for drones that will extend their flight altitude to up to 20,000 meters. Currently, issues with communication limit drone flights to altitudes below 1,000 meters. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday that it will initiate the development of a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of drones mounted with infrared ray cameras, thermal sensors and radar is gradually rising, particularly for use in accident investigation or disaster areas that are inaccessible to humans. According to the National Fire Agency, firefighting drones were mobilized for various accident areas 4,782 times over the past [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Thursday that it had developed a high-precision distributed drone simulator to enable safe research on drones in virtual space. Existing simulators designed to test the motion of drones could not test many drones at the same time, while being limited to [...]
SEONGNAM, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seongnam municipal government in Gyeonggi Province is on track to use drones for the delivery of library books. The city government said Monday that it will launch a pilot project for the proposed service within the first half of next year. The service will use drones to deliver [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said Thursday that it has developed a 5-kilowatt hydrogen fuel engine that can power heavy lift industrial drones. The newly-developed engine supplies hydrogen fuel using the direct spray method while optimizing engine parameters such as ignition and spray. The hydrogen engine has [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Parcel delivery services offered jointly by humans and robots are expected to become available in two or three years at the earliest. The Ministry of Economy and Finance said Wednesday that it had decided to revise the Living Logistics Service Act towards including drones and robots as transportation means. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A new technology has been developed that makes it easier to measure the acreage of rice plants that have been damaged due to rain or wind. The Korea Seed and Variety Service on Thursday demonstrated technology that can automatically measure the acreage of damaged rice plants using a drone [...]