Jensen Huang, Nvidia chief executive officer (CEO), who will visit Korea on the 4th, will meet with figures in the domestic robot industry. He is said to be planning to discuss ways to expand cooperation in physical AI with startups and researchers that are applying Nvidia's Robotics platform to real product development.
According to the industry on the 2nd, as his final official schedule in Korea on the 8th, Huang will host a closed-door roundtable at the Shilla Hotel in Jangchung-dong, Seoul, inviting CEOs of domestic robot and AI startups that have worked with Nvidia, robot and physical AI researchers, and partner representatives.
This is the first time Huang will meet domestic robot startups and academic figures together in one place. The event will be attended by corporations that have participated in Nvidia's startup incubation program, robot and next-generation network AI researchers, and representatives from domestic corporations that have applied Nvidia technology to products and services.
In the startup sector, AeiROBOT, NdotLight, and RealWorld are expected to attend. They are companies selected for the "Inception Grand Challenge," in which Nvidia chooses and supports startups that developed services using its technology with high commercialization potential.
AeiROBOT is developing a Humanoid Robot for shipbuilding and construction sites by applying Nvidia's AI computer for robots and virtual training platform to its humanoid "Alice." NdotLight is a corporations that generates 3D synthetic data for robot training using Nvidia's simulation platform and has recently been collaborating with AeiROBOT on a humanoid development project for manufacturing sites. RealWorld is building robot control models for manufacturing and logistics sites using Nvidia's robot development platform.
In addition, representatives from more than 30 AI and Robotics startups, including Upstage, which are using Nvidia's AI technology, will attend. An industry official said, "We received invitations stating that only one representative per company may enter," and added, "As this is the first separate meeting where Huang will meet domestic robot startup CEOs, corporations are preparing to explain their cases of using Nvidia technology and additional cooperation plans."
In academia, researchers with touchpoints with Nvidia in robots and physical AI, including the Seoul National University Robotics Institute, KAIST AI and Robotics researchers, and Yonsei University AI-RAN researchers, are said to have been invited. Key corporate representatives collaborating with Nvidia in Robotics and manufacturing AI, including Hyundai Motor Group, are also reportedly invited.
Huang has recently expressed his willingness multiple times to cooperate with Korea's robot industry. Meeting with reporters at "GTC 2026," Nvidia's annual AI conference held in Taipei, Taiwan, the previous day, he said, "Korea is a very important place in our ecosystem," adding, "Beyond simple chips, we are already working together in DRAM, science, Robotics, and AI factory fields, and there is really a lot we will do together going forward."
He specifically singled out the robot industry as a key area of cooperation with Korea, saying, "Robotics is a very important field for Korea's future, and Nvidia hopes to contribute to the development of Korean Robotics."
The industry expects Huang's visit to spur more concrete discussions on physical AI cooperation between Korean corporations and Nvidia.
Physical AI advances in performance based on data produced at real sites such as factories, shipyards, and logistics centers, so Korea, with its diverse manufacturing base, is seen from Nvidia's perspective as a market with significant room for cooperation. Korea's industrial base is broad enough not only in semiconductors but also in automobiles, shipbuilding, and electronics to generate and validate on-site data, which is key to physical AI development.
An industry official said, "The competitiveness of physical AI depends on how broadly you can generate and apply data across diverse manufacturing sites," and added, "The fact that Huang will meet not only large domestic corporations but also startups and academia during this visit means he sees Korea not just as a buyer of AI infrastructure but as a partner to realize physical AI together."