Source Issue – Instrument Business Outlook, Volume 35, Issue 9
South Korea: More Autonomous Labs Planned
South Korea launches a 50-company, 30-institution consortium to build AI-powered autonomous laboratories running around the clock.
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has launched the Autonomous Laboratory Industry-Academia-Research Consortium, which will use AI and robotics to formulate and carry out scientific experiments in a closed-loop manner. The labs will run 24 hours a day, and the results will contribute to the country’s “K-Moonshot.”
Data obtained by using the labs will be employed to advance standardization and to create national AI training dataset. This includes standardization of equipment, communication protocols, and data formats.
Subcommittees will be devoted to one of three areas: technology/platforms/standards, whose members include Park Systems, HB Solution, Ablabs, and Robot & Design; research/operations, whose members include the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, the Korea Institute of Materials Science, the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology; and demonstration/diffusion, whose 18 members include SK Hynix, LG Chem, and Hyundai Motor. In total the consortium is comprised of 50 companies and 30 universities and research institutions.
The initial project will be the consortium’s involvement with the $36.5 million, two-year “AI-Native Advanced Bio Autonomous Laboratory Project,” which began this year. The project will establish a general purpose autonomous laboratory and five specialized autonomous labs. Also, four autonomous experiment centers will be focused one of four areas of materials science: secondary batteries, hydrogen energy, aerospace and mobility, and organic semiconductors and displays.
Among the autonomous labs already that are established in the country are the Korea Institute of Materials Science’ “KIMS Autonomous Lab” and the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory.
Sources: Seoul Economic Daily (August 11, August 11), Maeil Business (August 11)
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