[Seoul = Newsis] Reporter Park Dae-ro = #. Angelobotics Co., Ltd. demonstrated a wearable robot for lower limb walking for children with walking disabilities and established a customized walking training protocol for pediatric patients. The company was listed on the KOSDAQ market last year through a special technology listing and achieved results in product delivery in both the public and private sectors.
#. Mirroroid Co., Ltd. installed an artificial intelligence-based smart mirror in the beauty lab of Seoul Life Science High School to demonstrate the possibility of recommending hairstyles and linking curriculum. The company won the CES 2024 Innovation Award, taking the lead in strengthening competitiveness in the K-beauty industry and expanding overseas.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 7th that it will recruit companies by the 21st to participate in the first public offering (general tasks) of "Testbed Seoul Demonstration," which will provide the entire city as an innovative technology test site.
"Testbed Seoul," which was launched in 2018 for the first time in the nation's local governments, is a project introduced to address the lack of demonstration opportunities, a representative inconvenience experienced by small and medium-sized businesses, ventures, and start-ups. The city has selected a total of 206 projects for companies based in Seoul over the past seven years and provided 68.3 billion won in demonstration costs.
The city will invest 8 billion won this year to support companies' overseas expansion and foster artificial intelligence-based technology intensively.
Of the 40 demonstrative tasks, more than half of them will be filled with artificial intelligence and AI convergence tasks. Of the 206 tasks that were covered over the past seven years, 53 (25.7 percent) were related to artificial intelligence, but more than 20 (50 percent) will be selected as artificial intelligence-based technologies this year.
Major artificial intelligence demonstration cases have been the "AI Self-Driving Robot Service" conducted by Yangcheon-gu Office and the "AI Biometric Pet Identification Service" promoted by Gwanak-gu Office.
The city will expand the scope of demonstration to overseas markets this year to provide a foothold for pioneering overseas markets. An accredited testing and certification authority with overseas branches will be selected as an overseas verification and cooperation agency to utilize the institution's overseas connection network and infrastructure.
This year, three projects will be operated as a pilot project for overseas urban demonstration. It will be selected through a separate second contest in July.

In addition, since last year, the city has expanded the demonstration institution to the private sector for companies that find it difficult to find a demonstration center in the public sector. Currently, Hoban Construction Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Department Store Duty Free Shop are participating as demonstration institutions to conduct technology demonstration.
The city introduces incentives to induce participation in empirical institutions. In the event of empirical linkage or successful assignment, compensation such as mayoral commendation is given.
In addition, the existing 7 test bed task types were reorganized into 5. General tasks, accompanying tasks, and cooperation tasks were integrated into general tasks and overseas tasks, and budget support type and opportunity provision type tasks were unified into budget support type tasks. In order to select more competitive technologies, the demand task type proposed by the demonstration institution and the free public offering type proposed by the company will be continued.

Companies wishing to hold the first test bed Seoul contest (general project) this year can apply through the Seoul R&D Support Center website of the Seoul Economic Promotion Agency.
The applicants are small and medium-sized companies based in Seoul that have innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The city has discovered sites that require demonstration in advance and unveiled more than 60 demand tasks. In addition to demand tasks, companies can freely propose tasks.
This year's major demand challenges include technology to measure the level of flooding in semi-underground housing-dense areas, artificial intelligence unmanned autonomous cleaning vehicle technology, and technology to diagnose and notify electric vehicle battery abnormalities.
The final selected companies will be provided with a maximum budget of 200 million won per project and a place that can be demonstrated for up to one year. A verification certificate (reference) under the name of the mayor of Seoul will be issued to companies that have successfully performed the demonstration. After that, it provides counseling for registration of innovative products from the Public Procurement Service, support for participation in domestic and foreign fairs, and investment attraction.
Joo Yong-tae, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's economic office, said, "The testbed Seoul project is a key platform in Seoul that helps innovative companies verify technology in real environments and advance into domestic and foreign markets. We will strengthen Seoul's future industrial competitiveness, such as AI and robots, and actively support companies to enter the global market."

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Source: Newsis