{"id":9534,"date":"2018-01-30T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2018-01-30T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:36:27","slug":"solidworks-world-keynote-professor-kyoungchul-kong-speaks-wearable-robot-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2018\/01\/solidworks-world-keynote-professor-kyoungchul-kong-speaks-wearable-robot-technologies.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS World &#8211; Keynote Professor Kyoungchul Kong Speaks on Wearable Robot Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-content\">\n<div class=\"wrap container\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<article class=\"post-36157 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-community category-customer-stories category-design category-solidworks category-solidworks-world-2018 tag-keynote-speakers tag-solidworks-world tag-sww18\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9537\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-World-Sogang-University-2--410x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-World-Sogang-University-2--410x615.jpg 410w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-World-Sogang-University-2--200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-World-Sogang-University-2--768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-World-Sogang-University-2--728x1092.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyoungchul &#8220;KC&#8221; Kong<\/strong> is a professor of mechanical engineering at <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwe.sogang.ac.kr\/\">Sogang University,<\/a> and CEO and founder of SG Robotics. With the help of his team he\u2019s developed various wearable robots to help those in need of assistive technologies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9538\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SG-Robotics-410x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SG-Robotics-410x615.jpg 410w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SG-Robotics-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SG-Robotics-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SG-Robotics-728x1092.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am honored to interview Professor Kong at SOLIDWORKS World 2018 on stage at Tuesday&#8217;s General Session, where he will showcase his latest work, ANGELEGS\u2014a wearable robot system that helps people whose ability to walk has been severely impaired.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ahict2CI7oQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, members of the SOLIDWORKS Education and Research team visited with Professor Kong and his Research team as they design and make robotic devices that improve people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9536\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1-728x485.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/3A-Sogang-University-Wearable-Robot-Technology-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SG Robotics is the first participant of the SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur program in Asia.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing new wearable technologies center stage on Tuesday and in the SOLIDWORKS World Partner Pavilion throughout the week.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoungchul &#8220;KC&#8221; Kong is a professor of mechanical engineering at Sogang University, and CEO and founder of SG Robotics. With the help of his team he\u2019s developed various wearable robots to help those in need of assistive technologies. I am<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2018\/01\/solidworks-world-keynote-professor-kyoungchul-kong-speaks-wearable-robot-technologies.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5760,5683,4015,5722,5219],"tags":[5493,4447,6389,5823,3931,4330,6390],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","category-entrepreneurs","category-mechanical-engineering","category-research","category-robotics-2","tag-entrepreneur","tag-robotics","tag-sg-robotics","tag-sogang-university","tag-solidworks","tag-solidworks-world","tag-wearable-robotics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}