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 [...]
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 [...]