Realworld Announces 'Physical AI Era' at ComeUp 2025: 'Korea to Lead the Way'

## Korea Stands at the Forefront of the Physical AI Revolution: The Age of Humanoids and RFM as Presented by Realworld Will a revolutionary change that will reshape the landscape of future industries begin in Korea? Physical AI startup Realworld, at the global startup festival 'COMEUP 2025', presented a future created by the convergence of robots and AI, and strongly asserted Korea's unique leadership. In a special session titled 'Physical AI: Robots Meet AI' held on the 10th at COEX, Seoul, Ryu Jung-hee, CEO of Realworld, in a discussion with Kim Byung-soo, CEO of Robotis, predicted that the upcoming year 2025 will be remembered as 'the year AI began to understand the world with its hands, beyond text.' This signifies the beginning of a huge inflection point across industries, where robot hardware evolves into humanoids and software transitions to Robot Foundation Models (RFM). **Humanoids and RFM: Key Drivers of Industrial Transformation** Both CEOs emphasized that as the rapid maturation of humanoid hardware and the rise of RFM intertwine, demand for complex task execution capabilities in the logistics, manufacturing, and service industries is explosively increasing. What is noteworthy is that Korea is evaluated as a country that can gain an overwhelming advantage in this physical AI competition. Possessing world-class hardware manufacturing technology, excellent AI capabilities, and immediate applicability in real industrial settings, Korea is analyzed to have the optimal conditions to lead the flow of this grand transformation. **Realworld's Vision: LVLAM Technology Driving Robots** Realworld is accelerating the development of a 'Large Vision-Language-Action Model (LVLAM)' as a core technology to make this future a reality. This integrated model goes beyond the limitations of existing large language models (LLMs) that merely learn web text data, enabling robots to perceive visual information, understand language commands, and connect them to actual physical actions. CEO Ryu emphasized that acquiring behavioral experience data obtained by robots in real environments is the ultimate competitiveness and core of this technology. In other words, the goal is to imbue robots with the 'wisdom of the body' from the real world, beyond the knowledge of the digital world. **Service and Logistics Industries: The Forefront of Humanoid Adoption** Regarding market prospects, CEO Ryu predicted that the adoption of humanoids would occur most rapidly in the service and logistics sectors, which are currently experiencing severe labor shortages. This is because relatively standardized work environments such as convenience stores, hotel services, and e-commerce logistics centers are favorable for early humanoid application. Indeed, Realworld, through active collaboration with global companies like Japan's KDDI, stated that it directly confirmed the strong demand for AI-based humanoids in the field, thereby proving the potential of this market. Furthermore, CEO Ryu stated that global big tech companies such as NVIDIA, Amazon AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI recognize Korea's robot and AI ecosystem as a very important strategic partner, and suggested that Korea's status in the global market is further strengthening through cooperation with them. The future presented by Realworld is not merely technological advancement. It is a revolution that will fundamentally change the paradigm of human life and industry, and strongly demonstrates Korea's potential to lead the world from the center of that change. The curtain is rising on the era of Physical AI in Korea.