The Korea Robot Industry Development Institute and GS Retail have signed a business agreement to revitalize robot utilization. (Photo. KIRIA)

 

The Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency (hereinafter referred to as the Promotion Agency) signed a business agreement with GS Retail, a leading domestic distribution company that operates various brands such as GS25, GS THE FRESH (Supermarket), Lalabla (H&B Store), and Parnas Hotel, to promote national benefits through the activation of robot utilization in the distribution sector and to promote the growth of the distribution industry and the robot industry together.

The two organizations will hold a ceremony at the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency on the 23rd, with the participation of President Moon Jeon-il and GS Retail Cho Yoon-sung, president of the Promotion Agency, and will cooperate in various fields such as cooperation in introducing offline distribution platform robots, policy and business development to revitalize the introduction of distribution robots, demand discovery, test bed construction cooperation, information exchange and cooperation network.

“We hope that this agreement will be a good opportunity to improve the quality of services in the distribution sector using robots and to reduce the burden on workers,” Moon said. “We will actively cooperate with the two organizations to bring new vitality to the distribution industry, which is emerging as a key link between post-corona on-line and off-line distribution channels.”

Meanwhile, KISA plans to plan and promote various projects such as activating the use of non-face-to-face service robots tailored to demand such as distribution field, and demonstrating AI and 5G-based robot convergence models at large demand bases such as distribution and SOC in line with the government's New Deal policy announced in July this year.