Nvidia, Doosan to collaborate on physical AI, data center infrastructure

By Kim Dong-young Posted : June 8, 2026, 09:41 Updated : June 8, 2026, 10:52
Graphics by AJP Song Ji-yoon
 
SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - Nvidia and South Korea's Doosan Group announced they will expand their partnership across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, the latest in a string of deals struck during CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Seoul.

The collaboration spans four Doosan units — Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials BG — pairing Nvidia's accelerated computing platforms with the conglomerate's strengths in industrial automation, power generation and advanced electronics materials.

Doosan Robotics is integrating Nvidia's Isaac robotics frameworks, Cosmos foundation models and Jetson Thor chips to advance its Agentic Robot OS, a step meant to carry the firm beyond robot arms toward a full-stack, AI-first robotics business.

The companies will also develop reference cases for tasks such as depalletizing and sanding, alongside dual-arm and humanoid platforms.

On the energy side, Doosan Enerbility is weighing how its gas turbines, steam turbines and small modular reactors could feed the relentless power appetite of AI data centers, while its Electro-Materials arm supplies copper clad laminate, a foundational material for high-performance printed circuit boards used in AI servers.

The agreement landed the same day Nvidia unveiled a multi-year memory partnership with SK hynix to develop next-generation chips for AI data centers, as well as a separate tie-up with Naver, capping a high-profile trip that has seen Huang dine with Korea's top corporate chiefs and warn that the global memory shortage could persist for years.

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