Korean companies are standing out at ‘CES 2025‘, the largest home appliance and information technology (IT) exhibition on earth.
Following CES 2024, Korean companies secured at least 13 awards for Best Innovation.
Among small and medium-sized businesses and startups, ‘CES Stars’ who are listed on the list of innovation award winners every year stand out.
◆Innovation Award accumulated 5 times ‘Golden Tower’ TenMinds
TenMinds, a healthcare device specialist company, announced on the 15th that its Sleep Tech sleep appliance ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) mopill’ won the 5th Innovation Award at CES 2025. It is rare for a domestic small or medium-sized company to upgrade the same product and win the CES Best Innovation Award and Innovation Award five times.
AI Mopil (Motion Pillow) is a smart pillow that relieves sleep disorders. AI detects snoring and inflates the airbag in the pillow to open the airway, thereby alleviating snoring.
AI Mopil has received innovation awards in every year except 2022 from CES 2020 to this year. Each time we participated in an exhibition, we significantly improved the functionality of existing products, and at CES 2024, we received the Best Innovation Award, which was given to only 36 out of 3,000 entries.
This AI mopil is equipped with further enhanced functions to create a comfortable sleeping environment. The number of built-in airbags has increased from 4 to 5, enabling detailed head angle adjustment, and a mood lamp function has been added. In addition to the ‘Motion Ring’, a smart ring that measures oxygen saturation, linked devices have also been added, such as ‘Oxygen Maker’, which provides clean air by increasing oxygen concentration, and ‘BMI measuring device’, which can determine the overall body condition.
While the existing app focused on recording snoring and measuring sleep quality, the improved app allows users to use a customized ‘Sleep Health Personal Trainer’ function that links and manages about 140 types of exercise information and health data.
◆Gaudio Lab ‘picked’ by MS Nadella
Gaudio Lab, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) audio, was named to the list of winners for three consecutive years with this Innovation Award.
Gaudio Lab won the Innovation Award for ‘Gaudio Music Placement’, a comprehensive audio solution for creators. It is a comprehensive solution that solves problems related to video content production and distribution. Just upload a video and the AI engine can recommend, place, and replace background music, dubbing, subtitles, sound effect selection, noise removal, and dialogue separation. Currently, a solution containing some functions has been successfully commercialized, and it is scheduled to be officially released with all functions in the first half of next year.
Gaudio Lab explained, “This solution can resolve background music copyright issues that are inevitably encountered at the video content export stage.” In the past, people replaced background music sources one by one, but Gaudio Music Replacement uses AI to quickly rearrange high-quality music that is most similar to existing background music but does not have copyright issues, significantly reducing the work speed. Using the world’s best sound source separation technology, it separates characters’ dialogue to strengthen voices, automatically provides foreign language dubbing, and makes it easy to apply various sound effects.
Gaudio Lab said, “Korea’s leading broadcasters have already adopted this solution,” and “business discussions are also taking place with broadcasters in Japan.”
Gaudio Lab received attention at CES 2024 held earlier this year when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella visited the booth in person, experienced the technology, and exclaimed, “Amazing.”
◆CES “Must-see products”… Wearable robot ‘Wim’
Wearable robot startup Weobotics received the CES Innovation Award for two consecutive years with ‘Wim’.
Wim is a wearable robot that supports users’ stable walking. Designed to be ultra-light at 1.6kg, it is portable and convenient, and when linked to a dedicated app, it analyzes gait data such as the user’s walking posture, efficiency, muscle strength, and walking age based on AI and big data and suggests supplementary points. Wibotics said, “Wearing Wim reduces metabolic energy by about 20% on average, and you can experience a weight reduction of 12kg when walking on flat ground while carrying a 20kg backpack.”
Wim won innovation awards in the fields of robotics, accessibility, and aging tech at CES 2024, and was introduced as one of the “must-see robot products” at the ‘Tech Trend to Watch’ event hosted by CES.
Wim began providing business-to-business (B2B) sales services in February and individual consumer (B2C) sales services in April. Wibotics has opened Korea’s first robot walking exercise center, ‘Wim Walking Exercise Center’, and is also operating exercise programs with robots.
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