Physical AI Crucial for Safety: Seongnam to Build Validation Center

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While verifying safety and reliability is essential in the physical artificial intelligence industry, it is often too difficult for individual companies to carry out on their own. Gyeonggi Province's Seongnam City has decided to establish a public physical AI integrated validation center.

Reporter Yu Yeong-su has the story.

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This is an AI-specialized company located in Pangyo Techno Valley, Gyeonggi Province.

Based on generative AI and robot AI technologies, this company develops practical physical AI services applicable to various fields, including manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and public sectors.

As the AI market is fiercely competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises face numerous challenges, but they note that the biggest difficulty is the lack of infrastructure to test stability and reliability, which is mandatory before deployment in real-world environments.

[Son Byeong-hee / CEO of AI Company: It is extremely important for a robot to experience and verify its actions beforehand. Errors in physical AI can lead to truly major casualties.]

This AI-specialized company, which supplies core solutions such as robot monitoring and autonomous driving systems, also emphasizes the need for public facilities to reduce massive validation costs and risks.

[Park Sang-gyun / Executive Director of AI Company: If there is a space where field environments are replicated, allowing us to test there first and greatly reduce testing in the actual field, it would be a tremendous help to us.]

To support AI companies, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Seongnam City have decided to invest a total of 17.4 billion won to establish a physical artificial intelligence integrated validation center in Seongnam Hi-Tech Valley.

[Shin Sang-jin / Mayor of Seongnam: We plan to fulfill our role as a national representative physical AI certification and demonstration city, where Seongnam City completes the entire physical AI process, ranging from certification, demonstration, and validation to commercialization.]

Seongnam City expects to open the center next year.

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