Wearable robot corporations Angel Robotics has launched a cross-ministerial "Brain-to-Robot" flagship project. The project's core goal is to commercialize as medical devices bidirectional technology that reads behavioral intent from the brain to control a robot and sends sensory information acquired by the robot back to the person.
Angel Robotics held a kickoff meeting on the 18th for the Brain-to-Robot development project to share technology development and commercialization strategies. The meeting was organized to outline the project's final goals, year-by-year implementation plans, medical device regulatory strategies, and user experience design directions.
The project will run for seven years from 2026 to 2032. Angel Robotics will lead the consortium as the managing institution. It will be responsible for linking Brain-to-Robot technology to actual medical devices and commercially viable systems.
Brain-to-Robot is technology that identifies a user's movement intent from brain signals to move a robot and transmits information sensed by the robot back to the user. Through this project, Angel Robotics will advance exoskeleton robot technology and pursue the establishment of a next-generation human-centered robot platform.
At the kickoff meeting, Kong Kyung-chul, chair of the board and head of future technology at Angel Robotics, who is the overall manager of the project, explained the final goals, year-by-year implementation plans, and key research directions related to robots. Kong is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST and the founder of Angel Robotics, and oversees the development of future robot technologies at the company.
Angel Robotics plans to pursue this project not as simple research and development but as a business premised on the commercialization of medical devices. The company intends to expand its technological domain into the Brain-to-Robot field based on its wearable robot technology and carry it through to commercially viable products and platforms.
Angel Robotics CEO Cho Nam-min said, "Angel Robotics will play an important role as Korea moves to become a central nation in next-generation robot technology."