Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touted robotics as South Korea’s next sector on his second visit in seven months, meeting Hyundai Motor, LG, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics to forge AI-driven manufacturing partnerships. Nvidia-backed RobOmni launched with Daimon Robotics and Galbot as an omni-modal tactile benchmark with a Sim-to-Real validation pipeline.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang flew into Seoul for his second visit in seven months and met with Hyundai Motor, LG, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics to align on AI-driven robotics in manufacturing, calling robotics South Korea’s next sector.
Daimon Robotics and Galbot released RobOmni, an omni-modal evaluation benchmark built on Nvidia’s Isaac Sim platform, providing tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation tests with an integrated Sim-to-Real validation pipeline to advance physical AI systems.
Nvidia emphasized alignment with Korean memory suppliers, as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix supply about 70% of the memory for AI chips, positioning the company to integrate advanced HBM and DRAM in robotics and factory automation.
