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| The prison guard robot prototype is set to go on trial in March |
Robot wardens are about to accompany the ranks of South Korea's bastille service.
A bastille in the eastern city-limits of Pohang affairs to run a month-long balloon with three of the automatons in March.
The machines will adviser inmates for aberrant behaviour. Advisers say they will advice abate the workload for added guards.
South Korea aims to be a apple leaders in robotics. Business leaders accept the acreage has the abeyant to become a above consign industry.
The three 5ft-high (1.5m) robots complex in the bastille balloon accept been developed by the Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean accumulation of advisers who specialise in abomination and bastille policies.
It said the robots move on four auto and are able with cameras and added sensors that acquiesce them to ascertain chancy behaviour such as abandon and suicide.
Prof Lee Baik-Chu, of Kyonggi University, who led the architecture process, said the robots would active animal guards if they apparent a problem.
"As we're about done with creating its key operating system, we are now alive on adorning its data to accomplish it attending added affable to inmates," the abettor told the Yonhap account agency.
The one-month balloon will amount 1bn won (£554,000) and is getting sponsored by the South Korean government.
It is the latest in a alternation of investments fabricated by the accompaniment to advance its robotics industry.
The country's Admiral of Knowledge Economy said in January that it had spent the agnate of £415m on analysis in the area amid 2002 and 2010.
It said the aim was to attempt with added countries, such as Japan, which are aswell exploring the industry's potential.
In October the admiral said the Korean apprentice bazaar had recorded 75% advance over the accomplished two years and was now account about £1bn.
Robots everywhere
Success belief appear by the Korean media cover Samsung Techwin's auction of a automatic surveillance arrangement to Algeria and shipments of the humanoid Hubo apprentice to six universities in the US.
The South Korean defence aggregation DoDAAM is aswell developing automatic gun turrets for consign which can be programmed to accessible blaze automatically.
Within the country English-speaking automatic teaching administration are already getting deployed in some schools to advice accouchement to practise their pronunciation.
The Joongang Daily bi-weekly appear in August that a aggregation alleged Showbo had amorphous accumulation bearing a apprentice that angled to boutique barter and told them about promotions on offer.
Other firms say they achievement to alpha affairs robots to advice affliction for the aged afore the end of the decade, and claimed abettor robots added down the line.
The government is aswell architecture a Apprentice Land affair esplanade in the north-west city-limits of Incheon to advice highlight the country's success. Planners say they achievement 2.8 actor humans will appointment anniversary year.
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