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The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs is promoting an AI emotional support robot demonstration project targeting veterans who live alone at veterans welfare towns and veterans centers. In addition, it was selected for the CCTV-based AI fall detection system development and verification contest.
A project is underway to deploy ‘AI emotional support robots’ to veterans who live alone at veterans welfare towns and veterans centers.
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs announced on the 9th that it has been selected for the 2026 public offering project by the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency (KIRIA) under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and will pursue a robot demonstration project with this content.
The deployed robots will help veterans with their daily lives, such as guiding them to take medicine, and perform the function of detecting depression through conversation.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs explained that if severe depression is detected during a conversation with a robot, the emotion will be managed in conjunction with a visit to a counselor from the Korea Foundation for the Vulnerable Senior Citizens.
The Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency will provide approximately 400 million won per year, and private companies YDots and Mindro will participate in development and verification.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs was also selected for the ‘CCTV-based AI fall detection system development and verification’ contest project.
This is a project to develop a system that detects falls of veterans admitted to veterans homes through CCTV installed at veterans nursing homes and immediately reports them to the nursing station.
The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and Evaluation (KEIT) will support research on an integrated control system for patient care such as fall prevention, nighttime breathing difficulties, and heart rate abnormalities with approximately 3.2 billion won over the next four years.
E2On Co., Ltd. (AI development company), Yonsei University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, and Lotte Medical Foundation are participating in this project.
Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Kwon Oh-eul said, “We will continue to expand the latest technology in veterans welfare facilities to implement veterans administration that improves the quality of life of veterans.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Depending on the results of the AI emotional support robot demonstration project, there is a possibility that it will be expanded to include veterans welfare facilities.
Likely · Within months
There is a possibility that the fall detection system and patient care integrated control system will be commercialized after four years of research.
Possible · Within years

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