ROBOTS TAKE OVER SOUTH KOREAN
AIRPORT LG Electronics is trialling new robots in South Korea’s largest airport, in preparation for next year’s Winter Olympics.
Seoul’s Incheon International Airport is home to a number of the company’s latest prototype bots: the Airport Guide Robot and the Airport Cleaning Robot. LG engineers have been reportedly fine tuning the robots for months, improving performance following a five-month beta test.
The Airport Guide Robot will roam the airport providing information and assistance to visitors (such as giving directions and boarding times). It speaks four languages – Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese – and guests will even be able to get it to scan their boarding pass and be escorted to their correct departure gate.
CHINA LAUNCHES GIGANTIC WATER CLEAN-UP
OPERATION China has launched almost 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017, investing ¥667.4b (£78b), according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).
The MEP announced in a statement that the projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and prevent water pollution, and cover
The Airport Cleaning Robot takes the LG HOM-BOT’s cleaning performance, autonomous navigation and object- avoidance capability and applies them to a commercial, public environment. The robot detects the areas that require the most frequent cleaning, stores those locations in its database
325 contaminated groundwater sites across the country. 343 contaminated sites had been identified, meaning 95% had drawn up plans to get water quality up to the required standards.
The MEP also noted that when it came to meeting their 2017 water pollution goals, some regions were still behind schedule, and that while overall water quality had improved in the first half of 2017, some regions registered an increase in substandard samples over the period.
Poorly regulated industrial expansion, uncontrolled use of fertilisers and pesticides, as well
and calculates the most efficient routes to get there.
With these airport robots, LG aims to demonstrate its initiative to develop and expand its commercial robot business as a future growth engine.
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as overmining has rendered large amounts of China’s water unusable. China pledged in 2015 to make considerable improvements to major waterways and curb untreated wastewater from highly polluting sectors like mining, oil refining, steelmaking, textiles and printing.
China grades its water into six bands. The lowest, ‘below grade 5’, is considered unusable even for industrial or irrigation purposes, and is described as ‘black and stinky’ water. Of 2,100 of these ‘black and stinky’ sites identified, 44.1% had completed treatment projects in the first half of the year, with the ministry noting that the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui and Liaoning had fallen behind.
200,000 ‘river chiefs’ have been appointed through the country to make local officials more accountable for curbing pollution. 636,000km² (246,000m²) of land would be made off limits to animal husbandry and 213,000 livestock and poultry farms have been closed in the first six months, in a bid to protect rural water supplies.
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