Korean startups vie for attention at CES with fresh ideas

Nearthlab’s drone station / Courtesy of Nearthlab

LAS VEGAS — Korean startups are vying for the eye of world audiences and traders on the CES 2025 tech commerce present in Las Vegas, exhibiting their contemporary concepts that might end in a breakthrough innovation.

In response to the Client Know-how Affiliation, the organizer of CES, it has chosen 19 firms for this yr’s Better of Innovation awards, together with three Korean startups — Ghost Move, Suprema AI and Nearthlab.

Ghost Move gained the Better of Innovation in FinTech, with its decentralized on-device biometric authentication answer, which securely shops customers’ biometric data on their very own smartphones.

This makes third-party entry to customers’ biometric data structurally unattainable, because it doesn’t use typical storage strategies comparable to servers or the cloud. Which means that huge data leaks might be prevented basically.

Supreme AI gained the award with its Q-Imaginative and prescient Professional on-device AI module designed to put in AI methods in ATMs to forestall monetary crimes comparable to voice phishing.

Utilizing facial recognition and conduct evaluation, it permits ATMs to foretell potential crimes comparable to voice phishing and prevents unlawful transactions.

With its multi-layer information encryption know-how, the answer permits an ATM to assist as much as 50,000 customers even when it’s not linked to the community.

Nearthlab gained the Better of Innovation in Drones with its Drone First Responder Station, a sophisticated drone base that enables drones to autonomously return to the bottom and alter batteries. It additionally integrates with police operation methods to autonomously receive flight authorization, enabling drones to behave as rapid responders in crucial conditions.

Together with the award-winning companies, greater than 640 Korean startups will take part in CES 2025 boasting their applied sciences in clear tech and robotics.

Of them, Inexperienced Whale International will showcase its bioplastic merchandise combined with biodegradable supplies derived from cassava and corn, that are compostable supplies.

Tesollo’s Delto Gripper-5F / Courtesy of Tesollo

Tesollo will exhibit its robotic hand Gripper. It has 5 fingers with 20 individually maneuverable joints, permitting it to exactly grasp objects starting from skinny enterprise playing cards to heavy objects weighing as much as 13 kilograms.

AEONUS will current its cell power storage system Indego, which encompasses a modular design that enables a number of models to be simply interconnected, attaining a most output of as much as 500 kilowatts.

Together with the businesses, the Korean authorities, Hyundai Motor Group and POSCO Group will every arrange their very own cubicles to advertise promising Korean startups and help their networking with international traders.