Where: BLD 20
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This lecture introduces the future in which people, spaces, and information will form new connections and explains the required core technologies. We live in a time where the boundaries between online and offline worlds are blurred. AI, robotics, and autonomous driving technology accelerate this, creating new connections that have not yet been experienced in our daily lives. Spaces as large as cities are digitized, enabling the autonomous driving of robots and vehicles. Seamless localization is made possible with VL (visual localization), which accurately determines the location from a single photo, even indoors or between dense buildings where GPS does not work. Combined with AR technology, VL can also be used to provide realistic information. Unlike smartphones that do not have motors, robots that can provide services based on their physicality are now equipped with arms, hands, and legs for safe coexistence with humans, with rapidly developing manners and intelligence. Their boundaries of movement have expanded from indoors to roads, increasingly providing an integrated robot service. In particular, the integration of AI, cloud, and ultra-low latency networks will address various difficulties of service robot development and serve as a catalyst for its popularization. When fully developed, these technologies become an entirely new infrastructure that connects information and services. The future technologies that have stayed in research labs are now increasingly moving into our lives. This lecture will address its prospects and the challenges we face today.
Sangok Seok
Dr. Sangok Seok, CEO of NAVER LABS, is leading NAVER's next-generation technology platform research through the integration of robotics, AI, autonomous driving, digital twin, etc. Holding a bachelor's and master's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his research paper on the MIT Cheetah was selected as the best paper at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics in 2016. After working in National Instruments and Samsung Electronics, Dr. Seok joined NAVER in 2015, spearheading NAVER's robotics field and filing over 60 robot-related patents. Since becoming the CEO of both NAVER LABS (in 2019) and NAVER LABS Europe (in 2020), he has been leading world-class researchers from 27 countries, focusing on preparing the future of NAVER, which will connect people, machines, spaces, and information through the most innovative and advanced technologies. In 2022, Dr. Seok received much attention from international corporations · media · research institutions for the "1784 Project," under which NAVER's second headquarters was constructed as the world's first robot-friendly building. With recognition for the first domestic installation of local 5G networks and his contribution to the advancement of smart building technologies, he was awarded the Bronze Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit. In 2023, Dr. Seok was appointed as vice chair of the Business Executive Council at the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, leading the innovative research of engineers as well as business development.
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