Korean Institute Licenses Evolution Robotics ViPR Vision Recognition Technology

Evolution Robotics a provider of robotic technologies, announced that the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) has licensed its ViPR visual pattern recognition technology for incorporation into KITECH's national robot platform Software Development Kit (SDK).

ViPR will be included in KITECH's Center for Advanced Robotics Industrial Infrastructures robot platform SDK which has been developed for Korean robotic academic organizations. According to the SDK, it's goal is to expedite robotics research, help reduce the cost and efforts associated with developing object recognition functions, and also to avoid redundant investment of resources in the development of new robotic technologies.

"KITECH chose the ViPR object recognition technology for our robotics platform because we believe it to be the most reliable technology available," said Dr. Young Sun Ryuh, General Research Manager of KITECH. "ViPR's reliability, coupled with its superior performance, has made it one of the most popular vision technologies in the world."

"ViPR is opening up a new range of applications for vision recognition in real world applications and is currently in use in more than 2 million products ranging from cell phones to UAVs," said Yutaka Yamamoto, General Manager of the Asia Division of Evolution Robotics. "We're very excited to be working with KITECH and their efforts to put ViPR into the hands of talented robotic developers throughout Korea."