SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery service app, Baedal Minjok, announced on Wednesday that it will develop a self-driving robot dedicated to food delivery service within apartment complexes. Woowa Brothers plans to complete the development of the self-driving delivery robot by the first half [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it will allocate 194.4 billion won (US$172.5 million) next year for the development of robot technology in the latest move to brace for the post-pandemic era. The figure represents a 32 percent hike from 2020, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Under [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its exoskeleton has met the International Organization for Standardization’s safety requirements as the South Korean tech firm spurs to release home bots in the market. Samsung said the GEMS (Gait Enhancing and Motivating System) Hip exoskeleton received the ISO 13482 certification from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, said Sunday it has formed a research consortium with global partners to discover high-performance materials with artificial intelligence (AI) and robot technologies. LG Science Park, the research and development (R&D) hub of LG Group in Seoul, joined hands with French energy firm Total [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — URI-T, an underwater construction robot developed using South Korean technology, has been sent to Vietnam to bury gas pipelines under the sea floor. The robot is a part of an underwater construction robot development project carried out by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. Developed in 2018, the robot [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Dilly Tower, a self-driving robot currently under development by Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery application Baedal Minjok, or Baemin, will begin offering room service at hotels. Woowa Brothers said Friday it started a robot delivery room service at a hotel in Seoul’s Gwangjin [...]
DAEJEON, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a spider web robot that can capture objects in the same way as a spider does. The National Research Foundation of Korea announced on Thursday that a research team led by Sun Jung-yoon and Kim Ho-young, professors at Seoul National University, developed a spider [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s major home appliance maker, said Friday that it will develop service robot solutions with local partners by November. LG said it will join forces with Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, and Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement to develop [...]
DAEJEON, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced on Thursday that it had developed a robot named “Mole-bot” to help explore underground resources. In general, a variety of equipment is used for underground excavation work, including drilling machines, pipelines, and pumps. This work, however, [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Instead of going to a local post office to send a parcel, South Koreans will soon be able to go to an autonomous postal vehicle that makes its way around town for parcel shipping. The Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Post announced Thursday that it will begin [...]