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 [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Carrying two ice lattes and a blueberry scone, a courier leaves a cafe on the 18th floor of a building, passing through an automatic door before taking an elevator down to the fourth floor. The deliverer then uses an application to notify the customer that the order will arrive [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., in tandem with industrial automation components manufacturer Omron Electronics Korea Co., announced Tuesday the development of a robot designed to carry out quarantine tasks to fight the coronavirus. The robot features ICT and automation technology including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, and Internet of Things [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, announced Monday that it will be testing the indoor autonomous driving food delivery robot Dilly Tower at the company’s headquarters in Seoul’s Songpa District until May 29. Dilly Tower is synced to a local elevator, allowing it to call, [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is propagating rapidly across the globe, boosting the popularity of so-called “untact” services, and promoting Fourth Industrial Revolution technology based on artificial intelligence. Many companies have been increasing spending on automation, including robot purchases, in light of the pandemic. The International Federation of Robotics estimates that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. showcased its newly developed food service robot at a local restaurant in Seoul. The LG CLOi ServeBot comes with indoor autonomous driving technology and an obstacle avoidance system. The robot is capable of delivering food to the table where customers are seated as well as returning [...]