Ryu Joong-hee, CEO of Real World, a startup developing robot foundation models (RFM), met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Taiwan, it has been confirmed.
According to the information technology (IT) industry on the 1st, Ryu attended the "GTC Taipei Korea Partner Night" event held at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan, that day, where he met Huang. The Korea Partner Night was held as a private networking event during GTC Taipei, Nvidia's annual developer conference. Executives from major conglomerates closely tied to Nvidia's graphics processing unit (GPU) ecosystem and partner companies directly or indirectly involved in Nvidia's Korean business were invited.
Attendees at the Korea Partner Night event reportedly included Samsung Electronics Memory Business Vice President Kim Jae-jun, SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung, LG Science Park CEO Chung Soo-hun, and Naver Cloud CEO Kim You-won. In addition, four to five domestic startup CEOs, including Ryu, were invited to and attended the Korean Partner Night event. Huang also visited the restaurant where the Korea Partner Night was held that day.
Real World appears to have been invited to the Korea Partner Night as a partner in Nvidia's physical artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. Since Huang declared the era of physical AI at CES 2025 in January last year, Nvidia has positioned itself at the center of the physical AI industry. In this process, Nvidia regards not only robot manufacturers but also startups developing RFMs that control robots as key partners. From Nvidia's perspective, RFM-developing startups are both customers of its core product, GPUs, and contributors to its software ecosystem through the use of platforms such as the simulation platform "Omniverse" and the robot development platform "Isaac."
Last month, Real World held a launch event in San Francisco for its RFM "RLDX-1," at which Amit Goel, Nvidia's head of robotics ecosystem and edge AI products, attended and remarked, "Real World is one of the core partners in the physical AI ecosystem Nvidia envisions."
Real World is developing an industrial RFM that enables humanoid robots to be used in manufacturing and logistics. The company's goal is to build high-performance models that allow humanoid robots to perform delicate tasks like humans. In particular, Real World's motto is to enhance the degree of freedom in robot tasks by precisely controlling a five-fingered robotic hand (effector). RLDX-1, the vision-language-action (VLA) model unveiled for the first time last month, beat existing models to take first place in eight global performance benchmarks.
Notably, in the "RoboCasa Kitchen" category, which evaluates complex movements similar to household chores in environments resembling actual kitchens, it became the first publicly released VLA to score above 70 points. After loading RLDX-1 onto "Alex," a humanoid robot manufactured by Wirobotics, the model achieved a 70.8% success rate in pouring coffee. In the same task evaluation, comparable models recorded success rates in the high 30% range.
Meanwhile, Real World plans to exhibit and operate Alex at the GTC Taipei 2026 event, demonstrating RLDX-1 to global IT industry stakeholders.
