East Asia robotics AI unicorn Real World (RLWRLD) announced on the 16th that it won first place in the Foundation Models (Robot Brains and Runtime) category at the 'Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards', a global robotics and physical AI competition held in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, USA.
This competition was hosted by Nebius, a NASDAQ-listed AI infrastructure company, with NVIDIA as its infrastructure partner. Held for the first time this year to discover and support next-generation physical AI startups, the competition attracted over 250 companies from over 60 countries around the world. Only 50 carefully selected teams advanced to the finals, where they competed on their technologies and commercial viability.
The judging panel included global experts such as NVIDIA Robotics Product Lead Spencer Huang, Nevius, OpenAI, Physical Intelligence, global robotics company ABB, Khosla Ventures, and Accel.
Real World took first place in the Foundation Model category amid fierce competition, receiving $150,000 (approximately 200 million won) worth of Nevius AI Cloud Computing Credits as a prize. The total funding for this competition was $1.5 million (approximately 2.1 billion won).
“We are honored to have received this prestigious award, recognized by global big tech companies and investors, in competition with leading global companies,” said Ryu Joong-hee, CEO of Real World. “This achievement will contribute to innovation in industries around the world, including manufacturing and logistics.”
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