KAIST will take part in the country’s largest science festival, the 2026 Korea Science and Technology Festival, in April, the month of science, and run an interactive exhibition hall, it said on Thursday.

This year’s festival will be held in two parts: an event in Daejeon from April 17 to 19 and another in the Gyeonggi area from April 24 to 26. KAIST will hold exhibitions in sequence at Daejeon Convention Center and KINTEX in Ilsan.

The exhibition at Daejeon Convention Center will focus on advanced robots, space technology and artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor technology. It will consist of hands-on future technology content that allows visitors to experience KAIST’s key research results directly.

A startup founded by a research team led by Myung Hyun (명현), a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, will unveil a humanoid robot on April 17. On April 19, a humanoid robot developed by a team led by Hae-won Park (박해원), a professor of mechanical engineering, will perform high-difficulty human motions such as a duck walk and the moonwalk to show its potential use in industrial sites.

A team led by Dae-young Lee (이대영), a professor of aerospace engineering, will present the world’s first deployable lunar exploration rover wheel using origami techniques. Visitors can also experience more advanced human-machine interaction through the mobile social AI agent "Broca" and the guidance robot "Onnuro," which can conduct voice conversations, developed by a team led by Hoe-jun Yoo (유회준), a professor at the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor. Student startup Liar Games will run an experience zone for the abstract strategy board game "Dual Focus," where visitors play one-on-one against an AI.

The Gyeonggi exhibition at KINTEX from April 24 to 26 will present hands-on content centered on AI and everyday technologies. A team led by Jemin Hwangbo (황보제민), a professor of mechanical engineering, will showcase driving technology for the quadruped robot "Raibo." The "Future Memories Studio" by a team led by Taek-jin Nam (남택진), a professor of industrial design, uses AI to recreate what visitors may look and sound like in 10 years and offers an experience of meeting and talking with their future selves.

A team led by Yun-jin Yoon (윤윤진) at the Urban AI Research Institute will analyze how climate change affects sales of small business owners through its "consumer index technology for heatwaves seen and heard with AI." It will also present time-series AI-based sales forecasting technology and generative AI technology that expresses it visually and aurally.

In addition, the team led by Yoo at the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor will run an experience venue for various mobile AI agents based on AI semiconductors, following the Daejeon exhibition. Student startup Rabbit Hole Company will present a new form of game in which AI characters in a game (AI NPCs) talk to each other and cooperate to solve problems.

KAIST President Kwang-hyung Lee (이광형) said this year’s science festival will allow more citizens to experience KAIST’s innovative research results directly. He said he hopes it will be a valuable time to experience in advance the future that robots and AI will create and to nurture dreams and curiosity about science.