On the 8th, Kakao Mobility held a tech conference, ‘NEXT MOBILITY: NEMO 2023 (hereafter NEMO 2023),’ at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. At this event, Kakao Mobility shared AI-based technologies and service visions of platform companies to respond to a future led by artificial intelligence (AI), and forecasted paradigm shifts in the future mobility sector through these advancements.
NEMO is the only IT technology event in the domestic mobility industry. It is a tech conference that showcases Kakao Mobility’s proprietary technologies while presenting a vision for the mobility industry based on partnerships with collaborators. After the first event held in February last year, it returned for its second edition about a year and a half later.
At NEMO 2023, Kakao Mobility shared the technical goal of ‘AI that understands our world.’ They plan to combine existing mobility AI technologies?from mobility engines such as route assignment and Transportation Management Systems (TMS) to autonomous driving, robotics, and digital twins?with their platform. Through this, they announced plans to build a ‘mobility-specialized generative AI engine’ by the first half of 2024 and to use the new engine to elevate the currently operating AI-based services to a higher level, while also implementing global mobility, logistics, and delivery AI plugins.
Furthermore, by establishing a mobility AI technology ecosystem that encompasses domestic and international passenger, logistics, and service mobility, they revealed their ambition and vision to lead the globalization of the domestic mobility industry through platform-integrated mobility-specialized generative AI technology.
NEMO 2023 featured key developers and service leaders from Kakao Mobility, led by Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Yoo Seung-il, who introduced the future of domestic mobility platform services and ecosystems transformed by AI technology in areas such as global, passenger and logistics, and robotics.
Additionally, global technology leaders including Oliver Ratzesberger, Vice President of AI and Data Products at Google, and Kim Il-du, CEO of Kakao Brain, attended to forecast paradigm shifts in daily life through AI technological innovation. Companies and institutions such as Grab, LG Electronics, Studio Galilee, and the Korea Transport Institute also participated, re-examining the value embedded in AI technology and data from various perspectives across the public, private, and academic sectors, and analyzing trends in mobility technology convergence and industry transformation.
Meanwhile, at the NEMO 2023 venue, an ‘AI LAB’ themed exhibition visualizing the ‘linkage between mobility big data, future mobility services, and AI technology’ was set up. Exhibits included the ‘ARGOS series,’ which creates digital twins on the ground and in the air using a ‘Mobile Mapping System (MMS)’ module integrated with positioning and sensor fusion technology; a ‘UAM vehicle mockup,’ representing urban air mobility vehicles; and the ‘LG Electronics integrated autonomous driving robot,’ developed in collaboration through Kakao Mobility’s high-definition map (HD map) construction technology. Additionally, the ‘Mobility Atlas,’ which visualizes big data analysis technology, and screen videos showcasing the operation of future mobility technologies such as autonomous driving, UAM, and robotics were also unveiled.
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