Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital Accelerates the Transition to Robot-Friendly Smart Hospital...Final Selection of Smart+ Building Core Technology Development Project
May 28, 2025
Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital was finally selected as a robot-friendly smart hospital demonstration institution for the 「2025 Smart+ Building Core Technology Development Project」 organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and supported by the Korea Land, Infrastructure and Transport Science and Technology Promotion Agency. This project is a large national R&D project with a total project cost of 20.3 billion won, and Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital will begin full-scale empirical research from 2026.
The project is a cross-ministerial convergence technology development project that builds an optimal building infrastructure for robots to operate efficiently and applies it to hospitals and public facilities to demonstrate it. The key is to integrate design, construction, and operation technologies to enable autonomous operation of robots within the hospital space. Hwang Kyung-eun, a professor of architectural engineering at Kyung Hee University, will participate as the research director to lead the integration of collaboration-based technologies between hospitals, architecture and robot industries.
In this demonstration project, Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital will introduce a total of six robots, including ▲ autonomous drug and sample transfer robot ▲ cleaning and quarantine robot ▲ guide robot ▲ waste transfer robot, etc., into the actual hospital environment. In particular, the spatial structure and system are optimized so that robots can operate smoothly under various physical constraints such as narrow corridors of wards, congestion caused by patients and guardians, and elevator sharing. Through this, the efficiency and safety of robot operation are demonstrated in a real environment.
This project was signed on May 22, and empirical research will be conducted for three years from 2026 to 2028.
Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital has successfully carried out a project to support the development of a leading model for smart hospitals in 2023, and through this task, it plans to present a technical and institutional model for robot operation in the hospital and convert it into a robot-friendly smart hospital. In the future, it is expected that robot-friendly smart buildings will play a leading role in spreading to medical institutions and public buildings nationwide.
Director Lee Woo-in of Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital, who attended the project selection announcement site, expressed his willingness, saying, "This task is an extension of digital healthcare innovation that Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital has continued to promote. Through the task, we will implement the nation's first robot-friendly smart hospital model in which robots operate in a real clinical environment.".
The project is a cross-ministerial convergence technology development project that builds an optimal building infrastructure for robots to operate efficiently and applies it to hospitals and public facilities to demonstrate it. The key is to integrate design, construction, and operation technologies to enable autonomous operation of robots within the hospital space. Hwang Kyung-eun, a professor of architectural engineering at Kyung Hee University, will participate as the research director to lead the integration of collaboration-based technologies between hospitals, architecture and robot industries.
In this demonstration project, Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital will introduce a total of six robots, including ▲ autonomous drug and sample transfer robot ▲ cleaning and quarantine robot ▲ guide robot ▲ waste transfer robot, etc., into the actual hospital environment. In particular, the spatial structure and system are optimized so that robots can operate smoothly under various physical constraints such as narrow corridors of wards, congestion caused by patients and guardians, and elevator sharing. Through this, the efficiency and safety of robot operation are demonstrated in a real environment.
This project was signed on May 22, and empirical research will be conducted for three years from 2026 to 2028.
Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital has successfully carried out a project to support the development of a leading model for smart hospitals in 2023, and through this task, it plans to present a technical and institutional model for robot operation in the hospital and convert it into a robot-friendly smart hospital. In the future, it is expected that robot-friendly smart buildings will play a leading role in spreading to medical institutions and public buildings nationwide.
Director Lee Woo-in of Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital, who attended the project selection announcement site, expressed his willingness, saying, "This task is an extension of digital healthcare innovation that Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital has continued to promote. Through the task, we will implement the nation's first robot-friendly smart hospital model in which robots operate in a real clinical environment.".
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
