[Las Vegas (USA) = AVING News] SUPERNOVA (CEO Lee Sang-min) held ‘CES 2023’ held in Las Vegas, USA for a total of 1 days from January 5 (Thursday) to January 8 (Sunday, local time), 4. Participated in the Eureka Park K-STARTUP integrated hall, a startup zone.
Supernova is developing innovative educational and service robots that can be used in everyday life. It received the honor of winning the CES 2023 Innovation Award for its first product, the artificial intelligence modular robot arm ‘HUENIT (hereinafter referred to as HUENIT)’. We are researching and developing STEAM educational content using HUENIT, and aim to provide fun educational content that combines AI, robotics, and software. Furthermore, the company is developing a hand drip system and ice cream robot system using HUENIT, and the company explains that HUENIT will be used in daily life within one to two years.
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HUENIT, which will be introduced at this exhibition, is a multi-functional, high-precision AI modular robot arm for makers and automation systems. It supports AI vision, laser engraving, 3D printing, robot gripper, writing and drawing functions, and also has customization modules. It supports a variety of development environments, including visual programming (block coding), Python, and Arduino (C++) programming.
In addition, you can learn and experience the entire process of artificial intelligence training using Tensorflow (AI accelerator (NPU) built into the HUENIT camera module). All functions can be easily learned and utilized by even beginners through the HUENIT SW platform.
HUENIT Barista, which will be introduced together, is a hand drip robot system that can control the temperature, flow rate, extraction pattern, extraction amount, and extraction time that determine the taste of hand drip coffee in the same way as an actual barista. Supernova said, “The advantage of Huneet Barista is that it provides more perfect hand drip recipe control, a convenient maintenance system, and higher space efficiency than the hand drip robot system using existing industrial robots, and can be supplied at a price that is 3 to 5 times cheaper.” explained.
The product development background was also revealed. An official said, “HUENIT was developed to innovate STEAM education and F&B robot services. By using a small robot arm with industrial-level accuracy, a variety of educational contents such as AI, SW, robotics, and science can be provided. Furthermore, he emphasized, “We can provide automation systems in the F&B field (hand drip coffee, soft ice cream, cocktail production, etc.).”
Based on this utilization, HUENIT has succeeded in pre-sales of more than $82 through global crowdfunding, and is targeting sales of more than $2023 million by targeting the domestic B2G education market and the global STEAM education market in 1,000.
An official said, “By participating in CES 2023, we will publicize HUENIT’s special functions and advantages and further demonstrate that problems in various industrial fields can be solved with HUENIT.” “In particular, we will unveil our new product, HUENIT Barista, for the first time at this CES.” “I plan to do it,” he explained the background to his participation in the exhibition.
In addition, “In the future, our company plans to develop a medium-sized robot arm with a higher payload and a size more than twice as large as HUENIT. “We plan to provide more automation services through collaboration between HUENIT, a small robot arm, and a medium-sized robot arm.”
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition, is an exhibition where you can understand the trends of the global home appliance industry at a glance. Hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), it is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 1 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 17, and has been selected as the ‘BEST OF CES’, which selects the best innovative products and technologies, and the ‘BEST OF’, which selects domestic innovative companies. ‘MADE IN KOREA’ was held. In addition, CES on-site issues were vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.
The K-STARTUP Integrated Pavilion is jointly participated by the Korea Start-up Agency, Seoul Business Agency, and Seoul Digital Foundation, and 51 domestic innovative companies participated to enter the U.S. market and discover global partners. In addition, CES 2023 college student supporters selected from each university (Kyunghee University, Kookmin University, Sogang University, and Chung-Ang University) were matched considering majors and industrial fields of participating companies.
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