Executives of Doosan Group are heading to Silicon Valley in the United States to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) across their businesses. Doosan Group set a goal of drawing up an AI innovation roadmap to secure a competitive edge in the AI era.
Doosan Group said the same day that, starting on the 22nd (local time) for four days, Vice Chairman Park Ji-won and other executives plan to visit global AI firms in Seattle and Silicon Valley in the United States. Vice Chairman Jeong Yeon-in of Doosan Enerbility, President Yoo Seung-woo of Doosan Co., and Vice President Kim Min-pyo of Doosan Robotics, among other chief executives of key affiliates, took part.
Park was quoted as emphasizing to the executives accompanying the trip, "We must integrate AI into every area we can use it to get ahead in the competition." A Doosan Group official said, "This business trip is an effort to draw up an AI innovation roadmap," adding, "Management believes that to secure a competitive edge, innovation must take place across all areas, including securing experts, building organizational culture, and advancing work practices."
Doosan executives are visiting big tech headquarters such as Amazon and Nvidia to examine AI technology on the ground. The same day, they visited Amazon's Seattle headquarters. After reviewing Amazon's AI-based projects to improve manufacturing and office productivity, the executives checked AI and robotics technologies applied to logistics centers and explored avenues for collaboration.
The next day, they will visit Nvidia to review the status of agentic AI and physical AI and hold discussions by business sector. Doosan is especially focusing on physical AI. Physical AI is technology that enables actual actions by combining AI not only with software but also with the physical world—robots, machines, sensors, and hardware. Given the group's characteristics rooted in energy and construction equipment, it plans to leverage physical AI in its businesses.
Afterward, the executives plan to visit Stanford HAI, Stanford University's AI institute that has an industry-academia partnership with Doosan, to review research outcomes. They also plan to discuss collaboration and build networks with AI startups such as Physical Intelligence and Perplexity and expert groups such as McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group. A Doosan Group official said, "We will seek, from multiple angles, ways to enhance competitiveness in real-world businesses."