KOTRA Partners with US Ghost Robotics to Support Domestic Companies' Drone Bot Overseas Expansion

[Asia Economy Reporter Jin-ho Kim] KOTRA announced on the 22nd that it will support domestic companies' overseas expansion by partnering with Ghost Robotics, a leading US dronebot market company.

On the same day, KOTRA held investment consultations, preliminary site inspection meetings, product demonstrations, and technology alliance, production, and export partnering consultations with Ghost Robotics at its headquarters in Yangjae-dong, Seoul. The Defense Technology Promotion Institute and 28 domestic companies in the robotics and defense sectors also participated.

This event is part of the 'Global Company Partnering Day' project newly launched this year by KOTRA's Defense Materials Trade Support Center (hereinafter KODITS). It supports domestic companies to enter overseas defense markets through partnering with foreign companies.

Dronebots are known as game changers on future battlefields centered on AI-based unmanned systems. The Republic of Korea Army also established a dronebot combat unit in 2018 to promote the operational deployment of reconnaissance, armament, electronic warfare, and other capabilities. Accordingly, KODITS jointly held a partnering event with Ghost Robotics, a leading dronebot company, to strengthen capabilities through overseas expansion and technology transfer of domestic companies.

Considering that dronebots are expected to be highly utilized in future manned-unmanned combined systems and civilian sectors, if Ghost Robotics' dronebot platforms produced domestically successfully combine with advanced domestic technologies and equipment, the overseas expansion of domestic companies is expected to accelerate further.

Yoo Jung-yeol, President of KOTRA, stated, "Through this event, I hope more domestic companies will take an interest in the dronebot-related industry, strengthen cooperation with global companies, and that this will serve as an opportunity to enhance our companies' productivity and technology application capabilities."

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