Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive officer (CEO) visiting Korea on the 4th, will meet with figures from the domestic robotics 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 actual product development.
According to the industry on the 2nd, Huang will hold a closed-door roundtable at the Shilla Hotel in Jangchung-dong, Seoul on the 8th, his last official engagement in Korea, inviting domestic robot and AI startup CEOs that have worked with Nvidia, robot and physical AI researchers, and partner officials.
This is the first time Huang will meet Korean robot startups and academic figures together in one place. The event will be attended by corporations that joined Nvidia's startup incubation program, robot and next-generation network AI researchers, and domestic corporate officials that have applied Nvidia technology to products and services.
In the startup sector, AeiROBOT, NdotLight, and Real World are expected to attend. They were selected for the "Inception Grand Challenge," in which Nvidia identifies 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 robot "Alice." NdotLight is a corporations that creates 3D synthetic data for robot training using Nvidia's simulation platform, and it has recently been collaborating with AeiROBOT on a project to develop a humanoid for manufacturing sites. Real World is building robot control models for manufacturing and logistics sites using Nvidia's robot development platform.
In addition, representatives from about 30 startups in robots and Digital Twin that use Nvidia's AI technology will attend. An industry official said, "We received an invitation stating that only one representative per company can enter," and added, "Since this is Huang's first separate meeting with domestic robot startup CEOs, corporations are preparing to explain their cases of using Nvidia technology and additional cooperation plans."
In academia, researchers with ties to Nvidia in robots and physical AI, such as 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 officials 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 the "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 factories, and there is truly a lot more we will do together going forward."
In particular, he cited the robot industry as a key area of cooperation with Korea, saying, "Robotics is a very important field for Korea's future, and I hope Nvidia can contribute to the advancement of Korean Robotics."
The industry expects Huang's visit to Korea to make discussions on physical AI cooperation between Korean corporations and Nvidia more concrete.
Because physical AI advances based on data generated on actual sites such as factories, shipyards, and logistics centers, Korea, with its diverse manufacturing base, is considered by Nvidia to be a market with significant room for collaboration. Korea's industrial base is broad enough to generate and validate field data—key to physical AI development—not only in semiconductors but also in automobiles, shipbuilding, and electronics.
An industry official said, "The competitiveness of physical AI depends on how widely you can generate and apply data across diverse manufacturing sites," adding, "The fact that during this visit Huang is meeting not only large domestic corporations but also startups and academia means he views Korea not just as a buyer of AI infrastructure, but as a partner to implement physical AI together."