AI-based Intelligent Robots
The Korean government should step up efforts to develop public services that are carried out by intelligent service robots in order to help the public experience robots and stimulate the development of the robot industry, experts said in a seminar held on Dec. 19.
The seminar was organized by the National Information Society Agency (NIA) under the theme of “How to Prepare for the Coming Robot Era.”
Panelists shared the view that the robot industry should not be understood as an industry for a single item, robots. They said it should be integrated with other technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and information-communication technology (ICT).
They also discussed the need for the government to change the direction of its robot policies and urged the government to introduce various public services that allow people to experience robots in their daily lives.
Park Ki-bum, a team leader at LG CNS, emphasized the importance of discovering services in the public sector that are carried out by intelligent robots. Citing the case of a guide robot introduced at airports, he called on related organizations to have more interest in developing public services executed by robots.
In this regard, Ryu Seok-sang, director of the ICT Convergence Division at the NIA, said, "Intelligent service robots are needed for the purpose of enhancing the nation’s innovation-powered growth and people’s quality of life. The public sector will take the lead in the spread of intelligent service robots."
Accordingly, the NIA plans to set up a strategy for introducing intelligent service robots in the public sector by expanding its study group for finding application models of intelligent service bots currently in operation.