2018 sees the Winter Olympics head to South Korea, in preparation for this, LG is trialling new robots – the Airport Guide Robot and the Airport Cleaning Robot – at Incheon International Airport.
First unveiled at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, these bots do exactly what their names state. If you need directions or information about boarding times, then the Guide Robot will be able to assist you in one of four languages – Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. LG says that these are the four most popular languages spoken at the airport. If you’re a little lost and can’t find our boarding gate, then all you need to do is scan your boarding pass and the Airport Guide Robot can escort you to the right departure gate.
LG says that the Airport Cleaning Robot takes the HOM-BOT’s powerful cleaning performance, autonomous navigation, and object-avoidance capability and applies them to a commercial, public environment. This robot detects the areas that require the most frequent cleaning, stores those locations in its database and calculates the most efficient routes to get there.
“LG is dedicated to the advancement and development of its robot technologies which includes navigation, voice recognition, natural language processing, and of course, DeepThinQ,” said Song Dae-hyun, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solutions Company. “It is this kind of effort and innovation that will drive LG forward in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Let’s just hope that the Fourth Industrial Revolution doesn’t lead to the robot uprising.
