Korean companies expand chip, driving and robotics work with NVIDIA

Korean industry leaders are expanding collaborations with NVIDIA to move physical AI into practical applications across semiconductor development, autonomous driving and manufacturing. The projects combine accelerated computing, simulation and AI models, with progress ranging from engineering benchmarks to robotic demonstrations in a manufacturing environment.

Samsung Electronics is using NVIDIA technologies across materials research, process simulation and device engineering. Its sMOL platform ran selected quantum chemical calculations up to 5x faster end to end with NVIDIA cuEST. In a chip-scale analysis case, AI-predicted material properties, coarser grids and GPU acceleration delivered a roughly 1,600x speedup. Samsung is also exploring tools for atomistic AI models and developing thermal and mechanical analysis workflows with NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo.

Kakao Mobility plans to develop a level 4 autonomous driving system using its proprietary software and experience operating in Seoul’s Gangnam district. Initial development will focus on Kia purpose-built vehicles, with plans to use NVIDIA Hyperion, DRIVE AGX Thor and Halos for vehicle computing and safety development.

LG Electronics and NVIDIA demonstrated robotic manipulation and manufacturing tasks using LG’s CLOiD robot in an actual manufacturing environment. Their workflow connects real-world data collection, Cosmos-based data augmentation, Isaac GR00T model training, onboard computing and simulation-based evaluation to support repeatable robot training and improvement.