KAIST Professor Haewon Park’s team introduced the four-legged walking robot ‘Hound’ at the ‘2024 Korea Science Festival & Technology Exhibition’

The research team led by Professor Haewon Park of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST will showcase ‘HOUND’, a four-legged walking robot for exploring rough terrain, at the ‘2024 Korea Science Festival & Science and Technology Exhibition’ held in Daejeon for four days from the 25th to the 28th.

At this event, 6 research teams and 3 start-up companies from KAIST will participate and showcase their technologies.

Hound, presented by Professor Haewon Park’s research team, is a robot that can operate stably even in atypical obstacle environments such as stairs or rough terrain without the help of visual and tactile sensors. It can reach a maximum indoor speed of 6.5m/s, and also holds a Guinness record for running 100m in 19.87 seconds. The hound will roam the event site and greet visitors throughout the festival period.

‘KAI (CEO Kim Beom-ki)’, a start-up company at the Graduate School of Culture and Technology, will exhibit ‘Mingle AI’. It is a generative artificial intelligence tool that creates a 3D avatar or object by inputting various types of data such as images, audio, and video. Even general users without specialized knowledge can easily create digital humans, and can be used in fields such as games, entertainment, and social media.