Kakao Mobility and LG Electronics Join Forces to Expand the Mobility Ecosystem

From the left, Kim Byung-hoon, Chief Technology Officer of LG Electronics, and Yoo Seung-il, Chief Technology Officer of Kakao Mobility

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Kakao Mobility announced on the 22nd that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LG Electronics for "joint development of services through technological collaboration in the future mobility sector and expansion of the mobility ecosystem."

On the 17th, Kakao Mobility and LG Electronics held a signing ceremony at LG Electronics Seocho R&D Campus in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, attended by the chief technology officers (CTOs) of both companies. At the event, they declared that by combining LG Electronics' accumulated technology and experience with Kakao Mobility's platform operation know-how and advanced data analysis capabilities, they will discover differentiated technologies and services based on customer experience to lead the future mobility market.

The two companies began full-scale collaboration on future mobility starting with the exhibition of LG OmniPod at Kakao Mobility's first tech conference, 'NEMO 2022,' held earlier this year.

Through this agreement, they plan to gradually expand cooperation in various fields including ▲discovering indoor and outdoor autonomous robot delivery service models ▲establishing a demonstration environment for 'In-Car User Experience (In-Car UX)' to verify mobility services and discover customer experiences ▲activating 'Soft V2X (communication between vehicles and all entities)' technology for pedestrian safety ▲discovering services through data integration between mobility and home appliances ▲and expanding the mobility ecosystem by discovering and nurturing startups.

In particular, as a first step to advancing robot services, they aim to conduct a proof of concept (PoC) for indoor and outdoor robot delivery services within this year. To this end, they plan to combine Kakao Mobility's control platform with LG Electronics' robot platform to build various linked services for object movement within buildings, and in the future, further connect with various services in different domains.

Moreover, they plan to apply LG Electronics' in-vehicle HMI (Human-Machine Interaction) solutions to vehicles linked with the Kakao Mobility platform, collaborate on discovering new services through data analysis technology, and verify new user-based services.

Yoo Seung-il, CTO of Kakao Mobility, said, "Kakao Mobility has continuously introduced differentiated mobility services through advanced ICT technology capabilities. Starting with collaboration with LG Electronics, we will not only strengthen our capabilities in future mobility services but also actively discover and support startups with excellent technologies to contribute to building the industrial ecosystem."

Kim Byung-hoon, Vice President and CTO of LG Electronics, said, "By cooperating with Kakao Mobility, the nation's top mobility service platform company, we will consider and discover new mobility customer experiences and innovative services applying our technological capabilities in infotainment, robotics, data fusion, and communication fields."

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