Korea's Samsung Techwin (www.samsungtechwin. co.kr) is scheduled to market an observation warning robot developed in cooperation with another several robot-specialized small and medium-sized companies in Korea from the end of the year 2008.
This intelligent-model observation warning robot, displayed at the 2006 Robot World last year, can recognize an object even in a dark circumstance at night with a color moving image.
Hence, this warning robot is assessed to be a better technology than an observation robot which is developed in Israel.
Samsung Techwin officials responsible for this robot's development said: "The development of this intelligence- model observation warning robot was completed by teaming up with its special laboratory, which is in charge of the defense industry field's product development within Samsung Techwin."
Regarding the company's momentum that came to develop robot, they explained: "Samsung Techwin basically possesses technologies which are necessary for robot development through defense industry gadgets, security, optics and imaging vision field projects. So we judge that robot market's business outlook is high since Security market is changing from manned Security to unmanned Security."
This is the first time that Samsung Techwin developed robots, but they regard the concept of robot as a project of unmanned system which don't need a person, not a simple unit product, Samsung Techwin officials assert. Therefore, Samsung Techwin aims to enable unmanned observation warning by bundling a lot of robots as system, not one robot, they said.
