SK Pack Selected for Physical AI Autonomous Manufacturing R&D Project
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NamuAX's subsidiary SK Pack has been selected as the lead research and development institution for a government-led international joint R&D project on physical AI-based autonomous manufacturing. The project is being pursued by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and SK Pack will receive KRW 10 billion in government support over about 5 years. The joint research team plans to implement multi-AI-agent-based autonomous manufacturing technology, apply it to a food company's production site, and then expand it to electronics, batteries, and automobiles.
NamuAX (formerly Namu Tech) announced on the 1st that its subsidiary SK Pack has been selected as the lead research and development institution for a government-led international joint R&D project on physical AI-based autonomous manufacturing. The agency overseeing the project is the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT), under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
SK Pack will participate as the lead institution in the government-led international joint R&D project and will receive KRW 10 billion in government support over about 5 years. The project also involves domestic and overseas academia, industry and research partners, including SK Pack, Sejong University, the University of Toronto in Canada, CUUVA, and a major food company.
The research is being pursued in line with the growing use of collaborative robots and autonomous mobile robots (AMR) in manufacturing sites. In this process, the ability to integrate and control information on workers, equipment, and process conditions is important.
The joint research team aims to use AI to assess on-site conditions, carry out work plans, and perform robot control and safety responses. To that end, it plans to implement physical AI autonomous manufacturing technology based on multi-AI agents.
As the lead research and development institution, SK Pack will spearhead the development of integrated operation and control technologies for multiple heterogeneous robots based on its experience in manufacturing automation and robot integration. SK Pack will also take on the role of applying AI technology to manufacturing sites and advancing AI-based autonomous manufacturing technology.
The joint research team plans to first verify the work and control processes in a virtual environment before applying them step by step to a food company's production site. It then plans to confirm stability and business viability through long-term operations.
The targets for the spread of the project’s results are various manufacturing industries, including electronics, batteries, and automobiles. Based on this research, SK Pack plans to link the work to its physical AI business and pursue commercialization by developing the research results into AI factory solutions and operating software that can be applied to actual production environments.
Separately from this project, the parent company NamuAX is planning to enter the physical AI data center sector linked to AI factories on manufacturing sites. NamuAX plans to supply GPUs for robot training, a simulation-based synthetic data generation environment, and middleware for integrated data platform management.
An SK Pack official said the project is meaningful because it goes beyond automation centered on individual robots and equipment to secure multi-AI-agent-based autonomous manufacturing technology for integrated operations involving people and multiple heterogeneous robots. The official added that the company will pursue verification of stability and business viability in actual production sites.
The official said the scope of application will be expanded from food to manufacturing industries such as electronics, batteries, and automobiles. Separately, NamuAX signed an MOU in August with SolomonTech, an ICT services specialist, to expand its enterprise platform business.
Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Young-seok
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