Researchers have introduced a laser-triggered material platform that allows soft electronic devices and soft robots to be selectively erased, reshaped, or reprogrammed from a distance. By using light as a remote “transform button,” the technology enables rapid, localized decomposition of soft materials—opening new possibilities for secure device disposal, adaptive robotics, and operation in hard-to-access, resource-limited environments.

A Korean-developed integrated design framework has been developed to comprehensively analyze “ship survivability”—a naval vessel’s ability to avoid enemy attack, withstand damage when hit, restore key functions after damage, and continue its mission. The key achievement is the integration of survivability analyses that had previously been performed using separate software tools into a single software environment.

A core audiovisual convergence display technology has been developed that allows sound to be heard from the exact location of a person or object shown on the screen. Without separate speakers, the technology vibrates the display panel itself to generate sound from a selected area of the screen. It can also move the sound-emitting location in real time as the sound source moves across the screen.

A research team led by Senior Researcher Minyoung Lee and Principal Researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), headed by President Chul-jin Choi, has developed a label-free surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis technology that rapidly detects extremely low concentrations of viable bacteria by directly growing plasmonic metal nanostructures on and around bacterial cells.

Nanophotonic biosensors are often evaluated by device-level metrics such as sensitivity, quality factor, linewidth, and detection limit. However, these parameters alone cannot fully determine practical performance in complex biological environments. This article introduces a Mode–Interface–Measurement–Decision framework, or MIMD, to reinterpret nanophotonic biosensing as a complete information-transfer process, emphasizing how biological information is generated, preserved, measured, and finally converted into meaningful decisions.

This study proposes a low-cost berthing angle estimation method that integrates monocular cameras and multi zone ToF sensors, utilizing the complementary advantages of the two sensors to improve measurement accuracy and reliability. The experimental results show that this method achieves an average absolute error of 0.64 ° under different distance and angle conditions, providing an economical and reliable technical solution for precise berthing perception of miniature unmanned surface vehicles (USVs).This study proposes a low-cost berthing angle estimation method that integrates monocular cameras and multi zone ToF sensors, utilizing the complementary advantages of the two sensors to improve measurement accuracy and reliability. The experimental results show that this method achieves an average absolute error of 0.64 ° under different distance and angle conditions, providing an economical and reliable technical solution for precise berthing perception of miniature unmanned surface vehicles (USVs).