"His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same."
"The hotel chain is one of many companies South Korean artificial-intelligence startup RLWRLD (pronounced "real world") is working with to create an extensive library of human expertise, harvested from skilled workers across industries, to develop AI brains for robots that could be coming to industrial sites and homes."
"It collects similar data from logistics workers at CJ, capturing how they grip, lift and handle goods in warehouses, and from staff at a Japanese convenience store chain Lawson, tracking how they organize food displays."
"The goal is to build an AI software layer that can work in robots across a range of factories and other work sites in coming years, before potentially expanding into homes. RLWRLD's engineers say replicating the dexterity of human hands is a key priority, reflecting their views that humanlike machines, or humanoids, will drive the field."
David Park folds napkins and performs hotel tasks while body cameras record his head, chest, and hand movements. The captured motions are stored in a database intended to train robots to replicate similar actions. RLWRLD works with hotel, logistics, and retail partners to gather comparable expertise, including how workers grip and lift goods in warehouses and how staff organize food displays. The aim is to create an AI software layer that can operate across many factories and work sites, with potential expansion into homes. Replicating human hand dexterity is treated as a key priority, supporting expectations that humanoid machines will advance the field.
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