Superb AI (CEO Hyunsoo Kim) , a vision AI specialized company, announced on the 18th that it was selected as a participating company in the 'K-Humanoid Alliance' led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
The K-Humanoid Alliance, a public-private partnership launched by the government in April 2025, aims to become one of the top three global humanoid powerhouses by 2030. Research institutions such as Seoul National University, KAIST, Yonsei University, and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and major corporations such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, SK, and POSCO are participating, and the government plans to invest a total of 2 trillion won. The alliance aims to build a humanoid ecosystem by developing core AI and robotics technologies and expanding them into manufacturing, logistics, safety, and public sectors.
In this alliance, SuperbAI will be responsible for implementing humanoid visual intelligence and developing physical AI. SuperbAI independently developed Korea's first vision foundation model, "ZERO," and has experience applying its solutions to over 100 manufacturing sites. Building on this experience, SuperbAI will provide essential technologies for humanoid autonomous operations, including object detection, motion analysis, and safety control.
"ZERO" is a core technology that enables immediate field deployment of humanoids. It can be applied on-site with just text or image prompts, without additional training, enabling rapid adaptation to a variety of work environments. It completed training with 900,000 data points and ranked second in the CVPR 2025 Challenge, the world's largest vision AI conference. This experience implementing the Vision Foundation model is directly applied to implementing the visual intelligence essential for humanoids' environmental perception and judgment.
Superb AI, in collaboration with Zero, supports humanoid AI development through the Superb Platform. The Superb Platform is an MLOps solution that supports the entire AI development process, from data labeling to model training and deployment. Currently, over 100 companies, including Samsung, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor Company, Qualcomm, SK Telecom, Toyota, and Nippon Steel (Nippon Steel), use the platform. Its proven experience in various manufacturing applications, including autonomous driving, defect detection, and safety control, can serve as a foundation for immediately deploying humanoids beyond the lab into real-world work environments.
Superb AI is currently participating in the Ministry of Science and ICT's "AI Foundation Model" development project. As the only non-LG affiliate within the LG AI Research Institute consortium, Superb AI is responsible for AI model development, designing and building a data foundation for the Vision Language Model (VLM) and multimodal/physical AI. This participation in the K-Humanoid Alliance is expected to create synergy between the two national projects and accelerate the establishment of the vision-language-multimodal-physical AI ecosystem necessary for humanoid development.
Meanwhile, Superb AI, founded in 2018, operates in Korea, the US, and Japan and holds 31 AI technology patents. It has obtained US SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and has attracted a total of KRW 49 billion in investment to date.
CEO Kim Hyun-soo said, “Based on our experience implementing the first Vision Foundation model in Korea and our proven technology in over 100 manufacturing sites, we have been chosen to play a key role in the K-Humanoid Alliance,” adding, “We will contribute to Korea leading the global humanoid industry and take the lead in the new future created by the convergence of AI and robotics.”
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