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SKPack picked to lead 10 billion won physical AI autonomous manufacturing R&D project

SKPack, a unit of NamuAX, has been selected as the lead research and development organisation for an international joint R&D project on physical AI-based autonomous manufacturing promoted by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology under the industry ministry. The project will receive 10 billion won in government funding over about five years. Participants include Sejong University, the University of Toronto, CUUVA and a major South Korean food company.

Industry

Robots can replace 74 percent of manual labor, but are not yet cheaper than humans

Robots can technically perform much of the manual labor done by humans, but only a small share can be replaced at lower cost, an analysis showed. Anthropic analyzed about 900 occupations and 19,000 tasks, classifying robot capability into four levels based on workplace environment. While robots could handle about 74 percent of manual labor tasks in technical terms, only 0.3 percent of all work was cheaper than human labor. Falling robot prices could raise that share over time.

AI & Enterprise

MSIT launches K-Moonshot rare earth industry-academia-research council

South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT launched a K-Moonshot rare earth industry-academia-research council in Seoul on Wednesday to strengthen supply-chain capabilities for materials heavily dependent on China. The ministry is pursuing a K-Moonshot programme that combines AI and science and technology. It plans work from 2027 led by three state research institutes to develop permanent magnet processes that avoid heavy rare earths, sharply cut light rare earth use and recover rare earths from waste magnets.