AI robotics specialized startup Portal301 (CEO Park Jang-jun) has been selected as a joint research institute for the '2025 Construction Site Multipurpose Aerial Work Robot Platform and XR-based Human-Robot Collaboration Technology Development Project' hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
This project is a large-scale national research and development project with a total investment of 32 billion won (including 17 billion won in government subsidies) and will be carried out for approximately 5 years from April 2025 to December 2029.
Seoul National University will serve as the main organization, and 16 companies and research institutes, including Hyundai Engineering, KCC, and Portal 301, will participate in the form of a consortium.
This project aims to transform the construction industry’s representative high-risk work process, the aerial work process, into a human-robot collaboration system based on robots and XR (extended reality) technology. It is an attempt at a technological transition to perform aerial work—welding, painting, refractory spraying, etc.—that has been dependent on manpower in the past, more safely and precisely.
Portal301 is in charge of developing an ‘XR-based remote precision control solution’ for this project. This technology goes beyond simple monitor-based remote control and is an immersive control technology that allows workers to precisely control robot arms as if they were on site through an XR environment. This allows skilled workers to safely perform precision work on the ground without actually climbing to a high location.
This technology is based on the core technologies of SyncRo, an AI-based automation control platform developed by Portal301. SyncRo is a platform that integrates various functions such as precision motion control, vision-based task tracking, automatic path generation, and task reproduction based on imitation learning, and has already gained proven experience in industrial fields such as nuclear power plant decommissioning, radioactive decontamination, surface polishing, and painting processes.
Portal301 CEO Park Jang-jun said, “This consortium is an attempt to respond to the social problem of a decreasing skilled workforce with technology,” and emphasized, “The future where high-difficulty tasks that used to depend on human hands are digitally reproduced and AI robotics perform them instead is no longer a distant dream. It will dramatically improve both safety and productivity in the construction industry.”
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