SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new delivery robot that can serve both indoor and outdoor environments as the South Korean tech giant tries to expand its competitiveness in the robotics sector. LG introduced its indoor-outdoor delivery robot at the 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots in Gangneung, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., in celebration of the company’s purchase of U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics Inc., revealed a video of K-pop icon BTS dancing with Spot, a maneuverable dog-like robot. The company revealed on Tuesday a video titled ‘Welcome to the Family with BTS’, in which BTS, the company’s [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Museum of History introduced a remotely controlled robot on Wednesday for remote exhibitions. The museum’s new robot employs holographic communication technology called telepresence. It can be remotely controlled by computers and mobile devices. The robot has been used at hospitals and universities in South Korea, but never before [...]
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 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean medical team has succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of an epilepsy patient using a surgical robot for the first time in the country. Severance Hospital said Thursday that it had successfully found and removed the areas causing epilepsy for a 10-year-old girl after implanting [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Sunday that it began an AI (artificial intelligence) Robot Mail Delivery Service for management staff working at the company’s main headquarters. Previously, the support center notified employees when there was a delivery, and each staff member had to visit the center to [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. will join hands with Woowa Brothers, South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, to develop unmanned delivery robots. The three companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding to start a research and development (R&D) project on robotics mobility and distribution for delivery [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean kindergartens and elementary schools have started to use robots for education. Voice of Korea, Pyongyang’s state-run radio station, posted a video on its official website on Thursday in which students were seen speaking to a robot while looking up at the robot’s ‘face’, or scanning cards with the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group said Friday its affiliates and its chairman will buy an 80-percent stake, worth up to 900 billion won (US$828 million), in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics Inc. in the latest move to propel its future mobility business. The board of directors at Hyundai Motor [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s arms procurement agency signed a contract commissioning a local defense firm to develop a robot capable of detecting and removing land mines and other explosives with indigenous technology, officials said Tuesday. Under the 18 billion-won (US$16 million) project, Hanwha Defense plans to develop a robot capable of [...]