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Samsung Electronics is serious about robots and accelerates progress despite patent registration hurdles.

(Seoul = Yonhap Infomax) Reporter Kim Kyung-lim = Samsung Electronics is speeding up robot-related patent registration this year, raising barriers to entry for competitors.

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Greetings Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Min-ji = Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee is giving a greeting at Samsung Electronics Bespoke Life Media Day held at Community House Masil in Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 21st. 2023.3.21 [email protected]

“We will focus our efforts on expanding the robot business.” This is what Jong-hee Han, vice chairman and head of Samsung Electronics’ DX division, said at a recent Bespoke new product announcement event.

Samsung Electronics announced robots as a new business from the beginning of the year and made equity investments in related companies such as Rainbow Robotics and Newbility one after another.

In the same context as the large number of patents registered, it can be seen as a full-fledged signal flare in the robot business.

According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office on the 22nd, Samsung Electronics registered 5 robot-related patents and disclosed 18 patents this year.

Completion of patent registration means that the patent right for the technology has been created and the patent holder has the right. In other words, it is like declaring that related technologies cannot be infringed by competitors because Samsung Electronics has its own technology.

◇ More human-like robots… Patented technology

Previously, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee said at the shareholders’ meeting held on the 15th, “The company pursues intelligent robots that continuously evolve through interaction with users and operate according to user needs.” We will promote the commercialization of robots.”

In fact, among the technologies that have been registered this time, the part to pay attention to is artificial intelligence (AI) learning robot software technology.

The robot equipped with the artificial intelligence technology recognizes the user’s language and text and implements a more natural conversation through application and processing through machine learning.

If most of the existing AI technologies only produced repetitive and mechanical responses under set conditions, the technology derives more natural interactions through learning.

Samsung Electronics developed the technology with a plan to apply it not only to robots, but also to smartphones, PCs, cameras, and wearable devices.

In addition, industrial robot technology that can replace human labor has recently been registered.

The robot is designed for ‘transporting gas cylinders’.

It is a robot that supplies necessary gases during the dry etching process of semiconductor and display manufacturing processes, and is intended to reduce the amount of labor for workers.

Since it takes a long time for a worker to pull out or push a cylinder weighing up to 150 kg, a robot with arms is implemented to prevent unexpected accidents, explosions, and fires.

◇ Start focusing on platform technology… I dream of the first year of a robot

Most of the technologies that have been disclosed to the public are focused on robots and control methods. Of the 18 cases, only 13 cases were related to control and driving methods. A total of two technologies related to driving robots have also been registered.

This can be interpreted as meaning that Samsung Electronics has recently intensively researched how to control the robot and how the robot will drive.

At the event on the previous day, Vice Chairman Han suggested that various researches are being conducted, saying, “A lot of engineers at Samsung Research are trying to make a robot platform.”

Specifically, the fact that they began to think about the activity radius and movement of robots can be seen as the time to implement their own platforms and devices in the near future.

Samsung Electronics has formed a ‘robot business team’ within the DX organization, and plans to introduce a ‘wearable for walking exercise’ robot under the name of ‘EX1’ this year.

A patent attorney at a patent law firm, who requested anonymity, explained, “We can gauge the direction of technology through recently disclosed patents,” and “Samsung Electronics has completed registration to establish barriers to market entry.”

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