'Welcome Future Scientists' KAIST Hosts Campus Opening Event After 4 Years

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) will hold the 'OPEN KAIST 2023' event, which opens research sites such as laboratories and research centers, for two days starting November 2 at the Daejeon main campus.

Started in 2001, OPEN KAIST is held every two years under the auspices of the College of Engineering (Dean Jaegyun Moon), marking its 12th edition this year. The event is designed to answer visitors' curiosity about science and inspire dreams and hopes in young people who will lead future science and technology by preparing a variety of programs that visitors can experience.

This year’s event, involving 16 departments and the Satellite Research Center, will operate a total of 56 programs across four areas: ? hands-on experience and demonstrations ? laboratory introductions ? special lectures ? and department presentations.

Visitors can also experience various robot technologies that KAIST prides itself on. The laboratory of Professor Myunghyun from the Department of Electrical Engineering will welcome visitors with a quadruped robot walking demonstration. Dreamwork, produced with a blind walking controller for quadruped walking robots, is a robot that won first place at the international quadruped robot autonomous walking competition held earlier this year in London, UK, outperforming world-renowned universities such as MIT and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by a significant margin.

Dean Jaegyun Moon of the College of Engineering stated, "OPEN KAIST was prepared to open KAIST’s education and research sites to provide visitors with an opportunity to directly experience and engage in communication about challenging and creative scientific and technological innovation."

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