NVIDIA announced new investment plans for several Korean AI startups at a forum in Seoul. Recipients include RLWRLD, a physical AI startup, and three other companies. RLWRLD builds robotics foundation models for complex hand tasks.
Planned investments
NVIDIA announced an investment in Point2 Technology. It also plans additional investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD, and Upstage. The companies cover AI infrastructure, foundation models, and robotics applications.
RLWRLD profile
RLWRLD is based in San Francisco, Seoul, and Tokyo. Its robotics foundation models target humanoid and industrial robots. The company plans to use the funding to advance its RLDX-1 model and expand field deployment.
DexBench launch
RLWRLD also launched DexBench at AI Day Seoul 2026. The benchmark runs on NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena and Newton. It evaluates 15 tasks across retail, logistics, assembly, and hotel food service settings.
RLWRLD plans to share the DexBench code, evaluation environment, training data, baseline models, and leaderboard. It also plans to expand supported robot platforms and hand types. The company will continue adding industrial tasks and evaluation conditions.