NC AI Joins South Jeolla, South Gyeongsang Physical AI National Projects at Once...Develops Digital Twin and LAM
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NC AI will participate in the Physical AI research and development project in North Jeolla and South Gyeongsang being promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIPA.
The North Jeolla project focuses on intelligent connectivity across the entire factory and autonomous factory operation technology, and NC AI will take on two tasks in North Jeolla: digital twin virtual environment technology development and unmanned factory operation-Physical AI SDF specialized foundation model research and development.
The South Gyeongsang project focuses on precision control in manufacturing processes, and NC AI will participate in the Physical Intelligence Action Model and Integrated Framework Technology Development task to develop world models and LAM-based technologies.
NC AI announced on the 17th that it will participate in the Physical AI research and development project in North Jeolla and South Gyeongsang, which is being promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). The project is a national initiative being promoted by the government and NIPA, runs for 5 years from 2026 to 2030, and has a total budget of KRW 1.4131 trillion.
North Jeolla Special Self-Governing Province and South Gyeongsang Province will each take on different manufacturing AI goals in this large-scale national research and development project. The North Jeolla project focuses on intelligent connectivity across the entire factory and autonomous factory operation technology, and has proposed digital twin and unmanned factory technology as development targets.
The South Gyeongsang project will focus on precision control in manufacturing processes. The development targets in the South Gyeongsang area are large action model (LAM)- and world model-based precision control technologies.
Among these, NC AI will participate simultaneously in the large-scale Physical AI national research and development projects being promoted by North Jeolla Special Self-Governing Province and South Gyeongsang Province. In North Jeolla, NC AI will handle two tasks: the development of collaborative intelligence Physical AI digital twin virtual environment technology and research and development of an unmanned factory operation-Physical AI SDF specialized foundation model.
The digital twin task is structured to generate AI training data by implementing a 3D virtual environment of factory facilities and workspaces and simulating worker movements. The data created in this way will be used to support the training and verification of vision-language models (VLM) and vision-language-action models (VLA).
The unmanned factory task involves developing a Physical AI foundation model for understanding manufacturing site conditions and spaces. This task plans to use LLM and VLM to recognize static and dynamic conditions inside factories and lay the groundwork for autonomous response by equipment and robots.
South Gyeongsang will participate in the task titled 'Physical Intelligence Action Model and Integrated Framework Technology Development.' In this task, a world model based on industrial site data such as sensors and vision will be developed, and the world model aims to predict physical situations and changes. It also includes the implementation of LAM-based technology to enable action planning and control of equipment and robots.
The developed technologies are expected to be applied to manufacturing sites such as shipbuilding welding and semiconductor back-end processes. The key lies in connecting a single flow from situation awareness through action planning to actual equipment control.
NC AI has core Physical AI technologies based on digital twins, world models, and robot foundation models (RFM), and is conducting demonstrations. This year, NC AI is working with Hanwha Ocean, POSCO DX, and Hyundai Rotem, and is pursuing the development and verification of Physical AI technologies in shipbuilding, steel, and defense industries.
Under this North Jeolla and South Gyeongsang project, the company plans to advance its existing technologies into manufacturing-process-specific solutions and expand the scope of on-site demonstrations. The target is manufacturing sites, and the company plans to apply a Physical AI technology stack that links virtual environment learning, understanding of the physical environment, and action model-based control.
NC AI CEO Lee Yeon-soo emphasized the importance of strengthening manufacturing competitiveness based on Physical AI and said the company will push ahead with applying AI trained in virtual environments to real manufacturing sites. He also said the company aims to push ahead with technology verification across diverse industrial environments and lay the groundwork for the manufacturing industry's AI transformation.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407090
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