ULSAN, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A design idea for a special balloon that changes color based on the severity of a disaster situation has earned a prestigious global design award. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) announced that it secured the top prize at the IDEA Design Awards, one of the world’s [...]
ULSAN, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An avatar refers to an image that represents a computer user in online games and chat rooms. However, the term avatar has taken on a new meaning in the robotics field. It stands for an interActive and intuitiVe control interfAce for a TeleoperAted Robot (AVATAR) system, designed to transport [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed technology that prevents contamination of the surface of materials based on the concept of a stingray dusting off sand using its fin. A team of researchers from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Pohang University of Science and [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of Koreans afflicted by heatstroke stemming from the scorching summer temperatures, a new study is gaining attention as it may provide a solution to the intense heat island effect that has been sweeping South Korean metropolitan areas recently. The Ulsan National Institute of Science and [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Administrators at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have revealed that the institution for higher learning is currently co-hosting a research internship program with Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for the second year in a row. The UNIST-Harvard SEAS Summer Program enables students [...]
ULSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Removed from their home of seven years after the appearance of an unexpected predator, a family of geese are back where they belong on the campus grounds of UNIST, a science and technology research university located in the southeastern city of Ulsan. Originally a family of seven, only four [...]
ULSAN, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Though whale meat that is illicitly procured and sold is thought of negatively by South Korean consumers, they buy it without having the means of confirming whether the meat has been gotten through legal channels.” Bradley Tatar, a professor at UNIST and the first non-Korean scholar to analyze Ulsan’s [...]
ICHEON, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Human players handily beat robots with artificial intelligence (AI) in a curling game on Thursday, despite the machines demonstrating evolving skill levels. At a competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, two robots named Curly exhibited considerable skill in placing stones on target and showed the ability [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Instead of getting defensive, a receptive stance entailing an apologetic attitude is a more efficient approach for companies that are under fire and are subsequently attempting to cool public outrage on social media, research has found. A research team from UNIST examined Twitter data for 12 companies that were [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at South Korea’s UNIST has developed a new type of lithium-ion battery that can be printed, bent, cut and even put through flames without leaving it worse for wear. The technology has been named the “flexible/shape-versatile bipolar all-solid state lithium-ion battery” by its creators. According to [...]