The Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced its research and management vision for this year along with a New Year's address. In addition, the award-winning representative research achievements and technologies of 2023 were unveiled.

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

ETRI announced that it has pledged to fulfill its mission based on the promotion of ESG management while securing strategic and core technologies to secure new future growth engines.

In addition, ETRI's core strategy is also the 'mission-oriented R&D innovation plan'. This refers to a management approach involving the setting of specific tasks and deadlines to address immediate challenges.

Last year, the research institute announced plans to generate medium- and large-scale research results through Top Challenge Projects and solidify its position as a core forward base for national strategic technologies.

Accordingly, it was decided to focus on increasing the impact of research results through initiatives such as the △new researcher nurturing program, △Eum investment to strengthen results by linking dispersed achievements, and △the technology commercialization sprint project to strengthen open R&D capabilities.

In particular, the establishment of the 'e-STAMP' is expected to enhance the contribution of research outcomes to industrial innovation by considering industrialization from the R&D planning and execution stages.

Along with its New Year's address, ETRI announced nine representative technologies that achieved outstanding results last year.

The Grand Prize was awarded to the 'core image processing and encoding technology for machine-to-machine task execution without human intervention' developed by Chu Hyun-gon, Head of the Immersive Media Lab at the Ultra-Realistic Metaverse Research Institute, and his team.

The top prizes went to robot gripper technology (Senior Researcher Kim Hye-jin) and digital twin technology for underground facility management (Center Director Jung Woo-seok).

In addition, △5G-Advanced Mobile Network (Principal Researcher Kim Chang-ki) △Ultra-high Resolution Display Backplane (Chief Technology Officer Yang Jong-heon) △Multidimensional Multimodal Olfactory Intelligence (Team Leader Ahn Chang-geun) △Monocular Plenoptic Microscope (Principal Researcher Lee Moon-seop) △Crime Prediction and Sign Detection AI (Principal Researcher Kim Gun-woo)Six technologies, including the Energy Transactional Service Platform (Director Park Wan-ki), won excellence awards.

ETRI President Bang Seung-chan stated, “Based on cooperation and solidarity with domestic and international research innovation entities from industry, academia, and research institutes, we will strive to secure new future growth engines and generate research results that contribute to national industrial development,” adding, “I hope to build a happy future world through digital innovation this year.”