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  Robotics

  Wearable Robots Target ‘Young Old’; Fashion, Finance Join

  At Hana Bank’s Hana The Next Seocho-dong Lounge in Seocho-gu, Seoul, a customer is experiencing a wearable robot by Angel Robotics. Provided by Angel Robotics Wearable robot services for the “Young Old” generation are emerging as a new growth engine for companies. Through technologies that reduce th

  2026.01.06
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  Kakao

  Kakao Unveils Korean AI Model That Thinks, Answers

  Kakao has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can handle everything from light everyday conversations to solving complex problems that require logical reasoning with a single model.According to Kakao on the 5th, the newly self-developed AI model “Kananav-4b-Hybrid” is characterize

  2026.01.05
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  CES 2026

  Homeflix to Bring ‘Physical AI’ Trend to Homes at CES 2026

  In the bedroom space inside the senior residence, environmental data can be measured in a non-contact, unconscious manner. The wooden finishes evoking the sensibility of hanok and the skylight lighting that appears to reproduce the real sky are notable. Photo provided by Homeflix AI-based residentia

  2026.01.05
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  Samsung / CES 2026

  Samsung’s ‘First Look’ Draws Crowds, AI Home Reality

  On the 4th (local time) at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, United States. As the curtain rose on Samsung Electronics’ “The First Look” event held one day before the official opening of “CES 2026,” cheers erupted repeatedly from among more than 6,000 media and industry officials gathered from around the

  2026.01.05
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  CES 2026

  Samsung Unveils ‘The First Look’ AI Companion

  Samsung Electronics on the 4th (local time) is holding its own CES brand event, “The First Look,” at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, launching its strategy for AI-based everyday innovation in earnest.At this year’s CES, Samsung Electronics is establishing a base at the Wynn Hotel

  2026.01.05
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  CES 2026

  AI Dominates CES Again as Korean Firms Unveil ‘Physical AI’

  Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) in Las Vegas, United States, on the 3rd (local time), three days before the opening of “CES 2026,” the world’s largest home appliance and information technology (IT) exhibition. Las Vegas = News1 Home robots that fold laundry and bake bread, humanoids (human-type r

  2026.01.05
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  AI Trend

  Vision-Centric AI Fades as Voice AI Battle Heats

  Meta’s smart glasses “Meta Ray-Ban Display,” unveiled in September last year. Provided by Meta The new year is seeing global big tech companies expand their artificial intelligence (AI) competition from images to voice. As the market for smart glasses equipped with voice AI opens up, interest is gro

  2026.01.05
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  AI Startup

  ‘AI Diet’ Cuts Monthly Costs by Up to 90%

  Kim Hyoung-joon, CEO of Squeezebits, explains at the company’s Seoul Gangnam office on the 11th of last month how its AI compression and optimization technology will become critical infrastructure in the coming neural processing unit (NPU) era. Photo by reporter Heo Jin-seok, jameshur@donga.com “We

  2026.01.03
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  Startup

  Silicon Valley Hosts 105 Unicorns, Eight Times Korea

  On 16 December last year (local time), at Dusty Robotics, a robot startup in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, California, a small robot shaped like a vacuum cleaner was busily moving across a white floor. As the robot passed, floor plans showing the outline of the building and the locations of pipes w

  2026.01.03
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  AI Investment

  Korea’s National AI Debuts, Midterm Check on K-AI Status

  The first presentation of the “Independent AI Foundation Model” project, launched to secure the Republic of Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) sovereignty, was held on December 30 at COEX in Samseong-dong, Seoul. The Independent AI Foundation Model is a project to build “AI for All” for the state,

  2025.12.30