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[THE INVESTOR] South Korea and the United States will join hands to develop robotic technologies for disaster response and invest US$ 6 million over the next three years, according to the Trade Ministry on Oct. 18.
Officials from the two governments, including South Korea’s Director General Kim Jeong-hwan and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Stephen Welby, held a kick-off meeting in Seoul on the Korea-U.S. collaborative program sponsored by the South Korean ministry and the US Department of Defense.
It is a follow-up step to a deal between the two sides in April 2015 to develop next-generation robotic systems for disaster environments.
Experts and researchers from the countries’ top-ranked universities and research centers such as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will team up to participate in the Korea-US collaborative program, according to the ministry.
They will jointly study ways to apply fundamental robotic technologies to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief tasks in the three categories of robot platforms, human-robot interaction and control, and modeling of a disaster environment.
Each country will inject $1 million into the project every year for the next three years.
“Robotic technologies are used in various fields including the manufacturing and service sectors, and they will play a big role in carrying out relief operations in case of natural disasters,” the ministry said. “The Seoul-Washington joint research will contribute to further developing and expanding bilateral cooperation in the robotics area.”
(theinvestor@heraldcorp.com)
Officials from the two governments, including South Korea’s Director General Kim Jeong-hwan and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Stephen Welby, held a kick-off meeting in Seoul on the Korea-U.S. collaborative program sponsored by the South Korean ministry and the US Department of Defense.
It is a follow-up step to a deal between the two sides in April 2015 to develop next-generation robotic systems for disaster environments.
Experts and researchers from the countries’ top-ranked universities and research centers such as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will team up to participate in the Korea-US collaborative program, according to the ministry.
They will jointly study ways to apply fundamental robotic technologies to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief tasks in the three categories of robot platforms, human-robot interaction and control, and modeling of a disaster environment.
Each country will inject $1 million into the project every year for the next three years.
“Robotic technologies are used in various fields including the manufacturing and service sectors, and they will play a big role in carrying out relief operations in case of natural disasters,” the ministry said. “The Seoul-Washington joint research will contribute to further developing and expanding bilateral cooperation in the robotics area.”
(theinvestor@heraldcorp.com)
