South Korea\'s National AI Strategy Committee held an industry meeting on humanoid robots on June 9 with robot and AI companies and academic experts. Participants discussed ways to secure domestic technological sovereignty and speed up deployment in manufacturing and services amid competition from global big tech and overseas firms including China’s Agibot. Private-sector members proposed six policy tasks, including testbeds, edge AI chips and expanded incentives, and the committee delivered the recommendations to relevant ministries.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (황젠슨) used a four-day visit to South Korea to map cooperation across the country’s AI value chain, spanning memory chips, foundries, data centres, AI models and robotics. He met executives from SK, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, Naver and LG Electronics, and hosted a reception bringing together 18 companies. Talks covered generative and sovereign AI, chip infrastructure, overseas expansion and startup cooperation, the report said.