NdotLight, Airobot, and Hanwha Ocean to Proceed with Shipbuilding Humanoid Robot Demonstration

NdotLight, a 3D AI specialist led by Park Jin-yeong, announced on the 8th its collaboration with Airobot, a humanoid robot specialist, and Hanwha Ocean to advance a demonstration of physical AI humanoid robots for shipbuilding applications. This initiative highlights how NVIDIA Inception ecosystem partners are integrating their technical capabilities to accelerate real-world industrial adoption of physical AI. Shipbuilding is considered a symbolic industry for verifying practical applications of physical AI and humanoid robots, given challenges like handling large blocks, complex workflows, confined ship interiors, and high-risk inspection zones. NdotLight will leverage NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim to build a simulation environment for training and validating robot movements, operations, and scenarios before physical deployment. Airobot plans to train its humanoid robot 'Alice' using NVIDIA Kairos and Somar Retargeter to test capabilities like heavy cargo handling, autonomous navigation, rugged terrain mobility, obstacle avoidance, and tool manipulation in shipyard settings. The collaboration aims to validate large-scale manufacturing applications within a year, with Hanwha Ocean's shipyard serving as a testbed. Park Jin-yeong, NdotLight's CEO, emphasized support for advancing shipbuilding demonstrations to real-world application through simulation environments and synthetic data generation.