DGIST Student Startup Company 'Quester' Wins 'CES 2025 Innovation Award'

DGIST (President Geonwoo Lee) announced on the 11th that its student startup company, Quester Inc. (CEO Jeongwoo Lee, DGIST Basic Science Department student), has been recognized for its innovative technology and awarded the ‘CES Innovation Award’ at the world’s largest consumer electronics and IT exhibition, ‘CES 2025’.

The CES Innovation Award is a prestigious honor given to companies that showcase creative and innovative products and technologies in the consumer technology industry. The selection results were announced ahead of CES 2025, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA, next January.

Questar employees are demonstrating the technology.

Quester Inc.’s award-winning product, ‘Motiglove,’ is a glove-type device that precisely tracks hand movements. By utilizing sensor fusion technology and proprietary algorithms, it minimizes external interference to achieve precision and stability. Evaluated as a core technology that will lead paradigm shifts in the content and robotics markets, this product has high potential for use in various fields such as immersive content manipulation, robot imitation learning, and motion capture. It is also gaining attention as a leading next-generation hand tracking technology in the global market.

Jeongwoo Lee, CEO of Quester Inc., stated, “Winning the CES Innovation Award is a great achievement that globally recognizes Quester’s technological capabilities and innovation.” He added, “Through this opportunity, we will accelerate our entry into the global market and lead innovation across the content and robotics industries.”

Quester Inc. is intensifying efforts to expand its market by strengthening global partnerships with the goal of officially launching ‘Motiglove’ in the first half of 2025. In particular, at CES 2025, the ‘Motiglove’ prototype will be exhibited at the Samsung C-Lab booth to showcase its technology to visitors from around the world, global company representatives, and investors.

Meanwhile, DGIST actively supports student startups based on creative convergence research and strives to nurture companies that are competitive in the global market.