After more than two years of global non-face-to-face society triggered by Covid-19, CES 2023, which heated Las Vegas’ LVCC and Eureka Exhibition Hall from the beginning of the new year, brought global technicians back to Las Vegas to explore the new year’s global technology trend.

This year’s CES can generally be summarized in three keywords. It is no exaggeration to say that the new technology of the 4th Industrial Revolution, represented by ICBM (IoT, Cloud, Big Data, Mobility), which is already familiar to us, has been melted into a new word called ‘CES’ this year. In other words, CES in 2023 can be said to be 1. Connective Technology 2. Environmental Technology 3. Sustainability Technology. Of course, some people say that the last S is security technology.

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Hills Robotics, a Korean self-driving logistics robot company, gained market attention and trust by simultaneously demonstrating a logistics robot called “Robot” and a service robot “Highbot” used in public institutions such as museums, exhibitions, and libraries. This year, Hills Robotics won the CES Innovation Award for releasing self-driving robots using hologram technology for three consecutive years, and for solving problems at these sites by applying hybrid slam technology using KAIST’s stacked lidar to solve sensitive cost-effectiveness problems at the logistics industry sites. Hills Robotics said it will widely use the excellent artificial intelligence-based autonomous driving robot operation technology not only in the logistics industry but also in various DX sites that implement smart factory unmanned processes and industries 4.0. In addition, the robot technology will be applied to the service site of Sodexo, which is based in France, a global dinosaur multinational company with annual sales of 32 billion euros. In addition, NewB, an autonomous robot specialized in urban delivery logistics services launched by Korean outdoor robot startup NewBee, also attracted visitors’ attention. Unlike other companies, Newby has the ability to easily identify driving environments and driving areas by applying multi-camera-based V-SLAM technology, so it can recognize accurate locations even in complex building operating environments in densely populated urban areas. In addition, Korean startup Eva has launched an automatic charging system for electric vehicles. Parky, a robot unveiled by EVAR, a Korean electric vehicle charging solution company, provides charging services by finding the location where the target vehicle parked on its own when a person calls. It is completely different from the current electric vehicle charging method, which is the same as refueling at a gas station. Using an autonomous charging robot, it is possible to dramatically overcome the disadvantages of the current method of driving a car right in front of charging facilities at a designated charging station. It is expected that it will be able to exceed the limitations of the space where charging stations and chargers must be installed and the limitation of the time when the driver has to move the vehicle himself.