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South Korea (About this sound listen) or Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; About this sound listen), is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Officially, its territory consists of the who...

Robotics

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by ChoiSeughyun

by ChoiSeughyun

                                        
                                                  Robotics Albert HUBO, developed by , can make expressive gestures with its five separate fingers  
                               has been included in the list of main national R&D projects in Korea since 2003. In 2009, the government announced plans to build robot-themed parks in  and  with a mix of public and private funding.
                              In 2005,  (KAIST) developed the world's second walking , . A team in the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology developed the first Korean ,  in May 2006. EveR-1 has been succeeded by more complex models with improved movement and vision.

                              Plans of creating English-teaching robot assistants to compensate for  the shortage of teachers were announced in February 2010, with the  robots being deployed to most preschools and kindergartens by 2013. Robotics are also incorporated in the entertainment sector as well; the Korean Robot Game Festival has been held every year since 2004 to promote science and robot technology.