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Robot Company Profile
Yujin Robot
Yujin Robot Showcases Korean-made
Robot’s Superiority at RoboWorld Cup
Boost seen for robots’ popularity at “Robot World 2006” in Seoul, Oct. 2006
By providing participating teams at the
FIRA RoboWorld Cup with robots to
promote the RoboWorld Cup, Yujin Robot
(www.yujinrobot.com) is globally
showcasing Korea’s robot industry, taking
the lead compared with Japan in terms of
the industrialization of Intelligent Robots.
In the meantime, Yujin Robot has
drawn attention from its competitors and
associated business circles by developing
Home Robot ‘irobi’ in Feb. 2004,
Cleaning Robot iClebo in Jan. 2005 and so
forth.
ground. It is possible to accomplish its
allotted mission by remote control.
Robhaz, whose main business item is to
scout in a hazard area instead of a person
or to rescue a person whose life is in
danger, has function such as passive
double track mechanism, moving of highspeed
in a uneven terrain, climb up stairs,
wireless communcation of image & data,
option device: disrupter, arm etc., portable
remote controlled station.
To compete in the
entertainment robot field
which is being most
commercialized around
the world, Yujin Robot
is marketing its
Entertainment Robot
Transbot etc. Wireless
camera & LCD PC
monitor, interface via
RS232, user program
(motion create, edit,
motion simulation),
attachable weapons
(rifle, machine gun,
rocket launcher) and so on, are useful
option packs regarding Yujin
Entertainment Robot Transbot, according
to Shin.
Yujin Robot aims to accomplish its
revenue of $41 million this year including
$2.5 million from industrial robot system,
$20 million from Cleaning robot, $4
million from network home robot, and $2
million from entertainment robot. In
Cleaning Robot iClebo
comparison with their price, Yujin Robot
products including cleaning robot iclebo,
entertainment robot get assessment that
their performance is excellent and
particularly in manufacturing robot for
studying or cleaning robot,
commercialization is being done more
effectively in Korea than in Japan, Shin
pointed out.
As part of plans to promote robot
culture among the people, president Shin
who serves as chairman of the Board of
Korea Association of Robotics (KAR) too,
with the objective of an industrial growth
and a development of Robot and Robotrelated
industries by solving technical
problems through sharing information
lively in close cooperation one another, is
setting great expectations on “Robot
World 2006” to be held on Oct. 18~21,
this year in Seoul, in which there will be
three categories such as Robot exhibition,
Robot Competition, and Robot Conference
and a total of 400 robot companies at
home and abroad will take part.
Network-based service model
Above all, Yujin Robot is a company
that specializes in Intelligent Robot’s
production as well as sales. Yujin Robot’s
Intelligent Robot, which is a networkbased
service model, includes cleaning
robot for household, field robot-Robhaz,
and entertainment robot like toy robot,
according to Shin.
The robot industry veteran explained
that Yujin Robot’s Intelligence Robot, is
to provide families in households with
various information and content such as
weather, news schedule, atmospheric
phenomena time and studying
time, playing a role as an
information medium for itself.
The difference between
robots and the Internet is that
robots have mutual
understanding with
interactive communication in
an appropriate point of time
people need, Shin noted.
Namely, he elaborated, “As
robot offers by recognizing
parts people need, people can
Shin Kyung-chul, Ph. D. ENC/president of Yujin Robot who concurrently serves as chairman of
the Board of KAR. (Korea Association of Robotics)
monitor the inside of a house in a remote
way by making robots move with their
cellular phones.” Yujin Robot is scheduled
to launch such robot, which has an edge on
home network, from Oct. this year.
As to Cleaning Robot iClebo
with which Yujin Robot sold
17,000 robots to date from Jan.
last year, it bears the stamp of
two steps of cleaning process,
collision avoidance navigation
with seven infrared sensors as
well as silicon rubber bumper
material and low level noise.
This Cleaning Robot that
Yujin Robot concentrates the
company’s efforts on selling it,
cleans the majority though it
doesn’t clean to the four corners of the
inside of a house, Shin boasts.
Further, Shin went on to say, “By
robotizing established white household
appliances, for instance robot for
household such as dishwashing robot and
refrigerator robot can make their
appearance”, adding that Yujin Robot has
such refrigerator robot project etc. under
way which can deliver cola to a relaxing
person in summer by becoming a
refrigerator for itself.
Excellent performance in comparison
with price
As for Field Robot-Robhaz, Robhaz-
DT3 is the highly efficient mobile robot
with capacity of high-speed in rough
Roboid (model: Cubo, etc.), developed
by IZIrobotics seems to be like a member
of the family or a pet at home. It works on
wireless Internet access points. Roboid
communicates with roboid server systems
through the Internet network with the
server providing A.I. (artificial
intelligence) to the roboid. Roboid can
drive and interface with many useful
contents for entertainment, education,
information, and even lifestyle.
In the case of TOBO developed by
The Future is Robotic
IZIrobotics targeting development of low-priced models for commercialization
IZIrobotics as well, it combines penguins
with the persons of the South Pole, which
are the existing features, and from the
TOBO star outer space concept it is new
generation, sensing the design on the
character robot.
Established in Jan. 2000, IZIrobotics,
which manufactures interesting robots like
this, began the company’s business with a
view to developing individual robots.
However, IZIrobotics now aims to develop
not only entertainment robots that appeal
to an individual’s sensitivity, but also lowprice
type robot models with strong
marketability, focusing on information
service.
With a view to developing low-price
model robots with strong marketability,
IZIrobotics (www.izirobotics.com) is
taking the lead alongside of Yujin
Robotics in Korea’s robot field in terms of
development and prospects for capturing
market share, according to robot experts
familiar with its market.
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