Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will take the mound at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul.
The Doosan Bears said on the 4th that during their home game against the Kiwoom Heroes at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 7th, Huang, the CEO, will throw the ceremonial first pitch, and Park, the chairman, will take the ceremonial first swing.
Huang will greet Korean baseball fans from the mound wearing a Doosan uniform with the number 93, signifying Nvidia's founding year of 1993. Park will step into the batter's box in a uniform with the number 96, meaning Doosan's founding year of 1896.
The event reportedly came together after Huang's side conveyed to Doosan a desire to watch Korean professional baseball. Huang threw first pitches at a 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) home game in San Francisco and in Taiwan's professional baseball league. Park is also known to have a special affection for baseball, having played second base in a baseball club while attending Korea University.
With Huang set to throw the first pitch at a Doosan Bears home game, a meeting at Jamsil Baseball Stadium with Park, Doosan's team owner, is expected to take place naturally. The two sides are expected to exchange views in a separate space at the stadium on cooperation plans in Robotics and physical AI. Doosan Group Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Kim Do-won, Doosan Robotics CEO Kim Min-pyo, and other Doosan and Nvidia executives and employees will accompany them to Jamsil. After the first pitch, Huang will watch the game with Nvidia executives and employees.
Nvidia and Doosan have expanded their collaboration over time. Doosan Co., Ltd.'s Electronics Business Group (BG) supplies Nvidia with high-end copper-clad laminate (CCL), a core material for AI accelerators. Nvidia is also said to have strong interest in Doosan Enerbility. As AI drives a surge in data center demand, Doosan Enerbility's gas turbines used in power generation facilities are winning more orders in the United States.
The two companies' collaboration talks are extending into Robotics and physical AI. Doosan Robotics, which makes collaborative robots, and Doosan Bobcat, a subsidiary focused on construction equipment, are seen as business areas with high potential for physical AI applications. At a dinner with Korean corporations in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 1st, Huang said, "We will consider investing in Korea," citing Robotics as a specific investment field.
Huang's eldest daughter, Madison Huang, senior director of product marketing for Nvidia Omniverse and Robotics, visited the Doosan Robotics Innovation Center in April and discussed physical AI technology cooperation plans with CEO Kim Min-pyo. The two companies plan to build a robot execution platform for industrial sites by linking Doosan Robotics' in-development agentic robot operating system (a system in which AI understands work goals without human intervention and determines the order of execution) with Nvidia's AI, Robotics simulation, and training infrastructure.
Based on this, Doosan Robotics plans to unveil an intelligent robot solution next year built on the agentic robot operating system, and to introduce an industrial humanoid in 2028.