A South Korean startup captures workers’ techniques to develop AI brains for robots
The startup is building a robotics foundation model from worker motions to automate hotel, factory and warehouse tasks.
- South Korean artificial-intelligence startup RLWRLD is harvesting human expertise from Lotte Hotel staff, capturing techniques like banquet napkin folding to develop AI brains for robots capable of working in industrial sites and homes.
- The government last month announced a $33 million project to capture the "instinctive know-how and skills" of master technicians into a database for AI-powered manufacturing, aiming to boost productivity and offset South Korea's aging, shrinking workforce.
- RLWRLD engineers convert worker footage into machine-readable data using wearable devices to capture precise joint angles and force, said Song Hyun-ji of the company's robotics team.
- Samsung Electronics plans to convert manufacturing sites into "AI-driven factories" by 2030, while Hyundai Motor intends to deploy Boston Dynamics humanoids at its Georgia plant starting in 2028.
- Kim Seok, policy director at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, warned that widespread robot deployment risks "severing the pipeline" for skilled labor, urging the government to prioritize worker input alongside technological advancement.
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With his head, chest and hands held with body cameras, David Park skillfully folded a banquet napkin as he has done thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Seoul Hotel. Each of his movements is incorporated into a database that one day will teach a robot to do the same.
Human workers' techniques help train 'brains' for robots in Korea
South Korean startup RLWRLD has partnered with a luxury hotel and a logistics firm to capture real workplace expertise. The staff wear body cameras while performing various tasks to help generate data for future robot training. Building on this data, RLWRLD recently unveiled RLDX-1, a dexterity-focused foundation model designed for complex real-world industrial robotics tasks. The system integrates the full robotics pipeline, including scalable …
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