Due to the Resurgence of COVID-19... KAIST Opens Lab for the First Time in 20 Years via 'Labang' Live Broadcast

Online Broadcast for 16 Departments from the 3rd for Two Days
No Pre-registration Required, Anyone Can Join at Scheduled Times

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-su] One of Korea's top science and technology education institutions, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), will reveal its laboratory sites through online 'live broadcasts.' This is a great opportunity for prospective students and parents dreaming of entering KAIST to experience it in advance.

KAIST will hold the 'OPEN KAIST 2021' event online for two days starting from the 3rd, showcasing on-campus research sites. Since 2001, KAIST has opened its campus every two years, offering various sights inside laboratories and providing experiential programs that stimulate scientific interest to communicate with the public. This year marks the 11th OPEN KAIST, which, considering the spread of COVID-19, will welcome visitors on an online video platform for the first time in 20 years.

Anyone wishing to explore KAIST laboratories can access the OPEN KAIST website and enter in real-time at the broadcast times when their interested laboratories are open.

The online public broadcasts will provide content such as explanations and demonstrations of the latest technologies led by the laboratories, introductions to research achievements, and simple remote experiences that can be participated in online. Sixteen departments researching cutting-edge technologies that KAIST prides itself on, including robotics, bio, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors, will participate.

In the robotics field, the Department of Mechanical Engineering's 'Humanoid Robot Research Center' will open a laboratory filled with robots and components. The center is divided into ▲hydraulic drive robot laboratory ▲robot processing room ▲researchers' study room ▲electric drive robot laboratory ▲robot assembly room, guiding viewers through each area and broadcasting vivid scenes of ongoing experiments. Following this, simple walking demonstrations of bipedal and quadrupedal robots will be presented.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will showcase new paradigm construction robots preparing for the future society, including ▲remote-controlled robots ▲wearable robots that assist construction site workers' strength ▲growing Vine robots that locate buried victims in disaster sites ▲autonomous vehicles.

In the biotechnology field, the Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Science, and Department of Bio and Brain Engineering will participate. The Department of Biological Sciences will introduce ultra-high-resolution imaging technology that visually observes the entire process of mRNA vaccines entering cells and antigen expression for COVID-19 prevention.

The Graduate School of Medical Science will explore laboratories researching complex brain structures using various brain engineering technologies such as brain clearing, brain expansion, and brain elasticity. The Department of Bio and Brain Engineering will present the future of personalized medicine by showcasing 'tumor avatars' (tumors cloned from patients) that can select the efficacy of anticancer drugs on behalf of cancer patients.

During the online public broadcasts of each laboratory, professors and graduate students will also provide real-time Q&A sessions to address visitors' questions.

Participation is possible without prior registration, and detailed programs and participation methods can be found on the OPEN KAIST website.