SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fried chicken franchise Kyochon F&B said Tuesday that it had introduced ‘assistant robots’ at its restaurants. The new robots are capable of interacting with people during operation, and were developed jointly with Doosan Robotics Inc. An assistant robot set up at a Kyochon Chicken store in Incheon’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Labs, the research arm of internet giant Naver Corp., said Thursday that it will introduce the world’s first 5G ‘brainless’ robot technology at the company’s second headquarters building, aimed for completion by the end of this year. Naver Labs received approval to move the 5G laboratory, currently located [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will introduce robots to feed military trainees this year. The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy announced last week that they will introduce robots as a test run this year to minimize the risk of injury and pressure borne by military [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Robostar Co., a robot manufacturing subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., is now at a turning point for full-scale growth with the South Korean tech giant selecting the robot business as one of its future cash cows. The company is now hiring a large number of new and experienced employees [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, officially began offering its self-driving robot Dilly Tower at an apartment complex in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo district on Monday. If a resident places an order via food delivery app Baedal Minjok, the delivery person loads the items onto the Dilly [...]
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 [...]