Kakao Mobility Partners with LG Innotek for Collaboration on Autonomous Driving Solution Development

Kakao Mobility is collaborating with LG Innotek to secure high-quality data for the advancement of autonomous driving technology. Through this partnership, the company aims to expand its areas of cooperation in autonomous driving technology to include hardware.

Joon Min, CTO (Senior Vice President) of LG Innotek, Sejin Oh, CSO (Executive Vice President), Jinkyu Kim, Vice President and Head of Physical AI Division at Kakao Mobility, and Kyujin An, Executive Vice President in charge of the business division, are posing for a commemorative photo at the headquarters of LG Innotek in Magok, Gangseo-gu during the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for autonomous driving solution development cooperation. Kakao Mobility.

On May 20, Kakao Mobility announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with LG Innotek for cooperation in the development of autonomous driving solutions. The two companies will conduct joint research and development to secure large-scale real-world driving data, which is essential to autonomous driving technology, by combining Kakao Mobility's data collection infrastructure with LG Innotek's high-precision sensing solutions.

Under this agreement, LG Innotek will develop an autonomous driving sensing solution that integrates camera, radar, and LiDAR modules. Kakao Mobility plans to utilize this solution in its artificial intelligence (AI) data pipeline, which is an integrated management system for autonomous driving data.

Kakao Mobility intends to further strengthen its core autonomous driving technologies based on the data acquired through this collaboration.

Kukseon Ryu, CEO of Kakao Mobility, stated, "Securing high-quality data, which is essential for advancing autonomous driving technology, will serve as an opportunity to elevate the technological completeness to a global level."

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