An amendment to the ‘Intelligent Robot Development and Distribution Promotion Act’ to advertise the domestic commercialization of outside mobile robots passed the plenary session of the National Assembly on the twenty seventh.

In Korea, regulations equivalent to banning robots from walking on sidewalks and parks under current laws are blocking commercialization, so it was identified that the law must be revised urgently to reply to the rapidly changing market environment and industry demand.

This amendment to the Intelligent Robot Act lays the muse for allowing outdoor movement of robots, equivalent to the definition of outside mobile robots, driving safety certification system, and insurance subscription obligations, and converts the Intelligent Robot Act, which was a short lived law, right into a everlasting law to secure legal stability. did.

In consequence, outdoor movement of robots with safety is allowed in Korea as in the US and Japan, making it possible to make use of robots in service markets equivalent to delivery, patrol, quarantine, guidance, and cleansing in the long run.

This amendment can be promulgated through procedures equivalent to government transfer and backbone by the State Council, and can be implemented six months after the date of promulgation in accordance with the supplementary provisions. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy plans to arrange sub-statutes equivalent to certification standards to enable commercialization inside this yr.

Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com