Lotte Innovate said on the 7th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mobilint, an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor corporations, to apply and validate Neural Processing Unit (NPU) technology and improve each other's technology.
The agreement is part of Lotte Innovate's strategy to build an NPU ecosystem. Lotte Innovate is expanding related businesses by broadening cooperation with domestic corporations that have competitive NPU technology specialized for AI inference.
Lotte Innovate will pursue technological cooperation to uncover various AI businesses through collaboration with Mobilint, which has strengths in video intelligence for mobility and security and in integrating edge devices. In particular, it plans to work together on technology and demonstrations to apply NPUs to the physical AI field. The NPU-based solutions for humanoids secured through the technology partnership will be deployed to sites of Lotte affiliates in manufacturing, retail, and logistics to verify performance and efficiency.
Lotte Innovate is also accelerating the internalization of related AI technologies such as VLA (vision-language-action), a core technology for humanoid control. Mobilint will be responsible for developing so that Lotte Innovate's AI models operate optimally in NPU environments, and plans to implement AI execution architectures optimized for various industrial settings based on on-device (embedded) and Edge AI semiconductor technology. In addition, it plans to maximize performance and operational efficiency in real industrial sites by designing linkage structures between sensors and devices and optimizing algorithms based on field data.
Oh Hyun-sik, head of the AI Innovation Center at Lotte Innovate, said, "From the overall AI industry to humanoids, a future industry, the success or failure of On-device AI depends on fast and lightweight NPU technology," and "We will combine the capabilities of both companies to prove next-generation smart infrastructure operation quality optimized for the field."