The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced its research and management vision for this year along with its New Year’s address. In addition, the representative research achievements and technology award winners that shined in 2023 were revealed.

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced its 2024 New Year research and management plan on the 2nd.

ETRI announced that it has pledged to secure strategic and original technologies to secure future new growth engines and to carry out its mission based on promoting ESG management.

In addition, ETRI's core strategy is also 'mission-centered research and development innovation plan.' This refers to a management method that sets specific tasks and deadlines for achieving them to solve current issues.

The institute announced plans to create mid- to large-scale research results through the Top Challenge Project last year and solidify its position as a key forward base for national strategic technologies.

Accordingly, we decided to focus on increasing the spread of research results through programs such as ▲ nurturing new researchers, ▲ investment to strengthen performance by linking dispersed achievements, and ▲ full-scale technology commercialization project to strengthen open R&D capabilities.

In particular, by establishing the 'Research Results Dissemination and Integration Strategy System (e-STAMP)', it is expected that the contribution of research results to industrial innovation will be increased by considering industrialization from the R&D planning and execution stages.

ETRI announced its representative achievements and nine technologies that achieved excellent results last year along with its New Year’s address.

The target was selected as the 'Key technology for image processing and encoding for machine-to-machine mission execution without human intervention' developed by Hyun-gon Chu, head of the Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Research Institute's Real-Time Media Lab, and his team.

The grand prize winners were: △Robot gripper technology (Research Director Kim Hye-jin) and △Digital twin technology for underground facility management (Director Jeong Woo-seok).

In addition, △5G-Advanced mobile network (Chief Researcher Kim Chang-ki), △Ultra-high resolution display backplane (Chief Technology Officer Yang Jong-heon), △Multi-dimensional multi-modal olfactory intelligence (Team Leader Ahn Chang-geun), △Monocular plenoptic microscope (Chief Researcher Lee Moon-seop), △Crime prediction and sign detection AI (Chief Researcher Kim Geon-woo)△Six technologies, including the Energy Transactional Service Platform (Director Park Wan-ki), received awards of excellence.

ETRI President Seung-chan Bang said, “We will strive to secure new growth engines for the future and create research results that will contribute to national industrial development based on cooperation and solidarity with domestic and international industry, academia, and research innovation entities,” adding, “I hope to create a happy future world through digital innovation this year.”