Delivery, Disinfection, and Patrol Robot Demonstration at Sejong Central Park

[Asia Economy (Sejong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Sejong City announced on the 20th that it will conduct a robot demonstration project with food delivery, quarantine, and patrol functions around Sejong Central Park.

The demonstration is part of the Sejong Autonomous Driving Regulatory Free Zone project, involving seven companies and institutions.

The demonstration fields include ▲delivery robots ▲COVID-19 quarantine robots ▲security patrol robots. Companies and institutions in each field will apply regulatory exemptions to focus on verifying the advancement of autonomous driving technology, safety, and commercialization at Sejong Central Park.

The city conducted safety evaluation consulting with the Robot Industry Promotion Agency, reflecting the results in robot design to preemptively block safety risk factors, and went through preparation processes such as subscribing to liability insurance, establishing and inspecting safety management plans.

For each field, the delivery robot service will operate by having citizens order food through the public-private cooperative delivery app Meokkebi, and the robot will deliver the food to the orderer's location.

In particular, this field will focus on checking the possibility of providing services during nighttime hours, cold and hot delivery services, and linking with Yeominjeon for external delivery services.

The COVID-19 quarantine robot will provide quarantine guidance services such as disinfecting park facilities, identifying mask-wearing status through facial recognition, and offering individual social distancing guidance.

The security patrol robot will support smooth park management by identifying and handling fire and crime situations, and will provide a service to check and notify the fine dust status within the park by collecting fine dust through additional Internet of Things sensors.

The city plans to enhance its capabilities in producing integrated platforms such as driving units and chargers through the demonstration and store the collected video data in a big data control center to support related companies in utilizing it.

Yang Won-chang, Director of the City’s Economic and Industrial Bureau, said, “The robot industry is a core industry of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including artificial intelligence, big data, and sensors, but commercialization is difficult due to many regulations. Considering this, the city plans to proactively respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution by applying the results of the autonomous outdoor robot demonstration to smart cities.”

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