Michelo Robotics (CEO Park Jang-jun), a robotic automation software company for automating manual surface treatment processes, announced on the 18th that it had been selected as a ‘First Penguin company’ under the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund’s innovative startup incubation program.
First Penguin is a scale-up program of the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund that discovers and supports companies with high potential to grow into future unicorns based on creative ideas and differentiated technologies. Selected companies are provided with comprehensive financial and non-financial growth support for three years along with policy financing-based guarantees.
Michelo Robotics has been developing and advancing its Physical AI-based robot automation software platform, 'Michelo AI,' targeting manufacturing sites that previously relied on skilled manual labor due to difficulties in automation, such as surface treatment processes such as grinding, polishing, sanding, and buffing.
Existing rule-based automation methods had limitations as they had difficulty reflecting surface micro-changes, process deviations, and differences in worker skill levels. However, Michelo Robotics applied a Physical AI architecture that integrated Perception–Motion–Planning–Learning Agent into a single pipeline, implementing human senses and judgment methods into robot intelligence.
This provides solutions applicable to manual surface treatment processes in various manufacturing industries, including automobiles, shipbuilding, heavy industry, aviation, and machine parts, and presents technological breakthroughs in areas that were previously difficult to achieve with existing automated methods.
CEO Park Jang-jun said, “In the field of surface treatment automation, which has had to rely on manual work due to technical difficulties, Michelo Robotics’ challenge to become the first penguin has been recognized by this selection,” and “We will fundamentally change the manufacturing site’s reliance on manual work through physical AI-based robot automation.”
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