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Naver to spin off R&D division for AI and self-driving vehicle focus
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- 2016.10.25
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- 2016.10.26
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- Go Direct
A separate R&D entity will be established early next year and Song Chang-hyun, chief technology officer (CTO) of Naver, will co-head the research arm.
“Amid fiercer competition over future technology at home and abroad, we plan to use the new operation to focus on research and development and strengthen competitiveness,” said an official of the company.
The company separately on Monday declared in its developers’ meeting DEVIEW that its R&D goal is ambient intelligence, embedded software for Internet of Things.
The company unveiled context-awareness digital assistant service named AMICA that answers and responds to user needs through app download or installation in motor vehicles.
Other applications of AI is its app Papago that can translate text, speech and images of words or phrases into other languages using Naver’s translation database and self-developed artificial intelligence software. Another area for R&D is autonomous vehicles. The company also unveiled its first robot called M1. The robot, equipped with a laser scanner and high-performing camera, moves around offices, shopping malls and movie theaters to act as moving guide.
By Oh Chan-jong
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