The Volkswagen Group's Woori Foundation will run educational programmes and exhibit the Volkswagen ID.4 electric car at the Seoul Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Science Museum, which opened on 20 March, under the theme 'Future Mobility Dreams'. This is part of the company's educational social contribution activities to raise the interest and understanding of future mobility technologies among students who will lead the future.
The Seoul Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Museum (Seoul RAIM), located in Dobong-gu, is the first science museum in Korea to focus exclusively on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), and officially opened yesterday after a two-month pilot run from July. The Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation signed an agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2023 to organise the education and exhibition.
The Volkswagen Group's WE Foundation has been working on an educational initiative, WE: Learn, to develop automotive software talent for the mobility industry. As part of this, the education and permanent exhibition is designed to help more students and citizens understand AI and future mobility technologies, and to actively shape the future of the future through the process of thinking and questioning the interrelationship between technology and humans.
'Future Mobility Dreams' is a redevelopment of the future mobility-themed coding education programme that Volkswagen Group of Korea has been running for primary and secondary school students since 2019, adapted to the context of a science museum. The programme has been well received by students, teachers and parents, and has reached nearly 10,000 students, with one team competing in and winning the FirstⓇ LEGOⓇ League, the world's largest robotics competition.
The training will be held on the second floor of the Seoul RAIM Exhibition Centre. The walls of the training room are decorated with an art wall depicting a futuristic city to enhance immersion, and a proving ground is created using LEGO dioramas to represent the architecture of a futuristic city and charging stations for electric vehicles that are charged by charging robots, and an autonomous vehicle robot with the design of a concept car from a Volkswagen Group brand is applied to further enhance realism.
Participants will learn about future cities and mobility with robotics and AI technology, and how to control a self-driving car robot made of LEGO Spike Prime through software programming. The programme is divided into three sections: 'Welcome to Future Mobility', where participants will learn about future mobility in general and get acquainted with future technology by coding basic robot movements; 'Go! Future Mobility', which explores future jobs related to future mobility and ponders the ethical issues of self-driving cars, and 'Think, Future Mobility', which uses AI cameras to refine the robot's behaviour to complete driving in future cities. Each course is 80 minutes long, with two sessions per topic, for a total of eight sessions.
The autumn course is scheduled to run for eight weeks from 1 October and can be applied for through the Seoul Public Service Reservation website from 19 September, and is open to students in the third grade and above. On the other hand, from 24 August to 29 September, weekend one-day courses will be held on the topics of 'Autonomous Driving and Future Mobility' and 'Coding with LEGOs - Le.co.ding', and are open to those aged 7 and above.
이와 함께 과학관 1층에서는 ‘AI와 모빌리티’를 주제로 전시된 폭스바겐의 순수 전기 SUV ID.4를 만나볼 수 있다. ID.4에는 트래블 어시스트, 어댑티브 크루즈 컨트롤, 레인 어시스트 등 최첨단 운전자보조시스템 ‘IQ.드라이브’와 LED 매트릭스 헤드라이트와 지능형 제어기능인 다이내믹 라이트 어시스트가 결합한 ‘IQ.라이트’가 탑재되어 있어 AI가 자율주행 2.5 단계 구현 및 자동차의 최신기술에 실제로 어떻게 적용되고 있는지 보여준다.
"The development of future mobility software talent is a key focus of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation, and we see the experiential education and exhibition at RAIM in Seoul as a great opportunity to broaden the scope of this talent search. We will continue to expand opportunities for more students to learn about the future of mobility in a fun and engaging way," said Teil Scherr, Chairman of the Board of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation.
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