KAIST will participate within the nation’s largest science competition, the 2026 Korea Science and Technology Festival, in April, the month of science, and run an interactive exhibition corridor, it stated on Thursday.
This 12 months’s competition will probably be held in two elements: an occasion in Daejeon from April 17 to 19 and one other within the Gyeonggi space from April 24 to 26. KAIST will maintain exhibitions in sequence at Daejeon Convention Center and KINTEX in Ilsan.
The exhibition at Daejeon Convention Center will deal with superior robots, area know-how and synthetic intelligence (AI) semiconductor know-how. It will include hands-on future know-how content material that permits guests to expertise KAIST’s key analysis outcomes instantly.
A startup based by a analysis staff led by Myung Hyun (명현), a professor within the School of Electrical Engineering, will unveil a humanoid robotic on April 17. On April 19, a humanoid robotic developed by a staff led by Hae-won Park (박해원), a professor of mechanical engineering, will carry out high-difficulty human motions equivalent to a duck stroll and the moonwalk to present its potential use in industrial websites.
A staff led by Dae-young Lee (이대영), a professor of aerospace engineering, will current the world’s first deployable lunar exploration rover wheel utilizing origami strategies. Visitors can even expertise extra superior human-machine interplay by way of the cellular social AI agent “Broca” and the steering robotic “Onnuro,” which may conduct voice conversations, developed by a staff led by Hoe-jun Yoo (유회준), a professor at the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor. Student startup Liar Games will run an expertise zone for the summary technique board sport “Dual Focus,” the place guests play one-on-one in opposition to an AI.
The Gyeonggi exhibition at KINTEX from April 24 to 26 will current hands-on content material centered on AI and on a regular basis applied sciences. A staff led by Jemin Hwangbo (황보제민), a professor of mechanical engineering, will showcase driving know-how for the quadruped robotic “Raibo.” The “Future Memories Studio” by a staff led by Taek-jin Nam (남택진), a professor of commercial design, makes use of AI to recreate what guests could look and sound like in 10 years and presents an expertise of assembly and speaking with their future selves.
A staff led by Yun-jin Yoon (윤윤진) at the Urban AI Research Institute will analyze how local weather change impacts gross sales of small enterprise homeowners by way of its “consumer index technology for heatwaves seen and heard with AI.” It may even current time-series AI-based gross sales forecasting know-how and generative AI know-how that expresses it visually and aurally.
In addition, the staff led by Yoo at the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor will run an expertise venue for varied cellular AI brokers primarily based on AI semiconductors, following the Daejeon exhibition. Student startup Rabbit Hole Company will current a brand new type of sport through which AI characters in a sport (AI NPCs) speak to one another and cooperate to clear up issues.
KAIST President Kwang-hyung Lee (이광형) stated this 12 months’s science competition will permit extra residents to expertise KAIST’s modern analysis outcomes instantly. He stated he hopes will probably be a priceless time to expertise prematurely the future that robots and AI will create and to nurture goals and curiosity about science.