The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) signed a business agreement with the Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DTQ) on the 9th at 2 p.m. at the Intelligent Root Technology Research Institute in its main office for the "leading domestic production of materials and components for lightweight structures in future defense weapon systems." KIIT and DTQ plan to conduct joint research on lightweight materials and components for defense unmanned weapon systems, covering aerial, ground, underwater, and marine operations. Director Lee Sang-mok said, "We plan to actively promote the domestic production of lightweight structural materials applicable to the defense and aerospace fields," adding, "We will vigorously support the strengthening of corporations' competitiveness through this localization."
Telefix, a total solution corporation in space artificial intelligence (AI), announced on the 9th that its research results were selected as the only Korean corporation in the joint-hosted "International Workshop on AI Foundation Models in Earth Observation" by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). The workshop, held from the 5th to the 7th in Frascati, Italy, discussed the latest technological developments and trends in satellite imaging. Telefix presented its specialized AI chatbot "SatChat" based on large language models (LLM) and introduced five recent research results during the poster session.
An international consortium led by Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has been selected for the "Hydrogen International Joint Research (H2GATHER)" project. This project is part of the Ministry of Science and ICT's flagship project for climate change response and international cooperation, with approximately 10.2 billion won being invested over five years. The key focus is to establish a foundation for next-generation clean hydrogen production through the development of an anion exchange membrane electrolysis technology. Project leader Professor Kim Yong-taek of POSTECH stated, "We will narrow the technology gap with advanced countries in the anion exchange membrane electrolysis field and take a step closer to achieving the 2030 target hydrogen price of $1/kg."
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on the 9th that the Kim Jae-cheol AI Graduate School will hold an "AI Technology Briefing 2025" at COEX in Seoul on the 16th. This event aims to introduce key foundational AI technologies being researched by KAIST to the industry and the general public, with the goal of promoting the dissemination of AI technologies and enhancing industry-academia cooperation. The latest research results spanning a wide range of fields including multimodal AI, robotics, large language models (LLM), and generative AI will be presented. The briefing is open to everyone free of charge, and pre-registration can be done online until the 12th via the form at https://bit.ly/kaistai2025.