South Korea to spend $ 1T on the development of more memory chips and humanoid robots

The physical push of AI is to resist robots

The third major part of the megaproject revolves around the South Korean government giving the title of “National Strategic Industry” to physical AI – AI systems that help robots and self-driving cars to interact with the real world. The government wants to establish a Korean “general-purpose foundation model” based on a world example to support robots within three years, according to The Chosun Daily.

Hyundai Motor Company has also donated $5.8 billion to build a robotics and AI data center in the Saemangeum district of North Jeolla Province in the southwest, The Chosun Daily reported. The South Korean automaker has already been supportive Boston Dynamics-US robotics company acquired in 2021-uses South Korean supply chain to expand production to to produce 30,000 Atlas humanoid robots every year until 2028.

Similarly, the South Korean government announced that it will aim to sell humanoid robots in 10 major industries by 2028, along with training 10,000 human workers as “AI robotics experts” over the next five years, Reuters reported.

However, South Korean workers do not feel optimistic about competing with more robots. On June 25, Hyundai Motor’s labor union agreed to strike with the South Korean automaker over profit-sharing and job protection measures to end the company’s plans to deploy Atlas humanoid robots. The Korea Times newspaper.

The state’s representative committee also gave the union the right to strike after the suspension of industrial action, by Hyundai Motor. to attract cooperation back to the negotiating table.

Some public controversy has already begun surrounding South Korean chipmakers’ excessive profits from the AI ​​boom. South Korean government officials have encouraged technology companies to they share some of the unprecedented benefits and their employees are small retail companies. In May, South Korea’s policy-making president even suggested that a “National dividend” for citizens based on higher tax rates from South Korean companies that make AI-driven profits—although the government later clarified that it was a personal decision rather than a government decision.