Krafton has unveiled Rudi 0.2, a robot AI system that understands human intent and gestures and acts in response to changing situations.

Krafton's robotics research unit Ludo Robotics said on Nov. 2 it showcased Rudi 0.2 on Oct. 30 local time at the 2026 Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS) held at UC Berkeley in the United States.

The presentation was led by Kangwook Lee (이강욱), Krafton's chief AI officer (CAIO) and Ludo Robotics' chief technology officer (CTO). Rudi 0.2 is a follow-up version to Rudi 0.1, which was unveiled in August.

Ludo Robotics is researching the "social intelligence" of robots that understand human intent, adapt to changing environments and collaborate.

Rudi 0.1 is an AI system that combines a vision-language model (VLM) for conversation and reasoning with mobility and object manipulation functions. It is designed to understand spoken instructions, maintain conversational context and confirm task details through follow-up questions when instructions are unclear.

Rudi 0.2 advanced social intelligence that responds to human intent, feedback and social signals. It also enhanced memory and reasoning that preserve context amid changing situations, tool manipulation that links mobility with object manipulation and interaction, gesture understanding and physical movement.

Ludo Robotics is also pushing ahead with development of Rudi 1.0, a next-generation foundation model that integrates environmental perception, conversation and physical actions into a single model. The goal is for robots to share task information with people and communicate and act in real time.

Krafton is expanding AI technology accumulated in the game development process into robotics that interact with people in real-world spaces.

Krafton CEO Changhan Kim (김창한), who is also chief executive officer (CEO) of Ludo Robotics, said, "Based on our experience of creating virtual worlds that interact in real time through games, we will build AI for robots that communicate and collaborate naturally with people in the real world."

Ludo Robotics recently opened a headquarters lab in Palo Alto, California. It plans to link the Palo Alto lab with its Seoul office to conduct AI and robotics research and expand cooperation with Silicon Valley's talent and technology ecosystem.