HD Construction Equipment Holds 'Future Construction Machinery Challenge' Highlighting Unmanned and Eco-Friendly Technologies

Over 400 Students from 46 Universities Nationwide Joined Over the Past 5 Months
Grand Prize Won by Dankook University Team with 10 Million Won Award and Overseas Training

HD Construction Equipment has been discovering the creative ideas of Korean engineering students and exploring the future direction of construction machinery, including unmanned and autonomous driving technologies as well as electrification.

HD Construction Equipment announced on the 20th that it held the awards ceremony for the '1st HD Future Construction Machinery Challenge' at the HD Hyundai Global R&D Center in Pangyo on the 18th.

The Dankook University ‘Gamtu Club’ team, who won the grand prize, is presenting the ‘Upper Platform Smart Leveling System,’ a technology that automatically adjusts the horizontal level of the upper body of construction machinery. HD Construction Equipment

This competition was held over approximately five months, starting in April. More than 400 university students from 46 universities nationwide participated, proposing technology and product ideas that can be applied to the actual industrial field, under the theme of transforming future construction sites and machinery.

After the finals, engineers from HD Construction Equipment served as mentors, turning the event from an idea contest into a technology competition, giving participants the chance to directly consider and design future construction machinery technologies.

The grand prize was awarded to the 'Gamtu Club' team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dankook University, which showcased the 'Upper Platform Smart Leveling System' for construction machinery. The winning team received a prize of 10 million won, support for an overseas exhibition tour, and exemption from the document screening process for recruitment.

The Excellence Award and the Outstanding Award went to Inha University's 'Matcha' team, which proposed an AI-based adaptive smart shading cabin, and the 'Robanjang' team, which proposed a four-wheel independent steering-based unmanned compact construction platform, respectively.

HD Construction Equipment selected the winning works based on a comprehensive evaluation of the creativity, technical feasibility, potential for industrial application, and future growth of the proposals.

In particular, the contest featured a wide range of ideas related to core future technologies in the construction machinery industry, such as unmanned and autonomous construction machinery, electrification and eco-friendly power sources, and AI-based control operations. Participants suggested not only technical proposals but also solutions for key challenges facing the industry, including productivity improvement, carbon emission reduction, and enhanced on-site safety.

Moon Jae-young, CEO of HD Construction Equipment, said, "This challenge was a meaningful opportunity to imagine the future of the construction machinery industry through the fresh perspectives of university students," adding, "We will continue to actively communicate with future talents and support their imagination so it can lead to real-world innovation."

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