Hanwha Construction Introduces Korea's First Apartment Robot Delivery Service
Demonstration of the apartment robot delivery service, introduced for the first time in Korea at 'Hanwha Forena Yeongdeungpo' Hanwha Construction is launching the country's first 'indoor robot delivery service' for apartments. When food ordered through a delivery app arrives at the apartment's first-floor main entrance, a resident delivery robot delivers it to the household.
This service will be first introduced on the 12th at 'Hanwha Forena Yeongdeungpo.' The delivery robot can open the main entrance door via wireless communication, call the elevator, and enter the desired floor to move there. When the food arrives, it calls the customer's mobile phone or sends an arrival message to notify them.
To implement this service, Hanwha Construction eliminated level differences within the complex, replaced swing doors with automatic doors, and equipped the Forena One-Pass Key on the delivery robots to create an environment that allows free movement.
Hanwha Forena Yeongdeungpo consists of three buildings from basement level 5 to ground level 30, with 182 apartment units and 111 officetel rooms. One delivery robot is installed and operated in each building, totaling three robots.
Hanwha Construction is providing this service in collaboration with Woowa Brothers, the operator of 'Baedal Minjok,' having signed a business agreement in July last year and prepared for the service introduction. Going forward, they plan to expand services using robots and broaden the service scope considering the application environment of new complexes.
Yoon Yong-sang, Head of the Architecture Business Division at Hanwha Construction, said, "We expect to provide customers with a new residential experience through non-face-to-face robot delivery services amid the COVID-19 situation, while also reducing psychological anxiety caused by face-to-face contact."
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