{"id":13062,"date":"2026-11-02T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:53:15","slug":"krafton-unveils-ludi-0-2-ai-designed-to-help-robots-work-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=13062","title":{"rendered":"Krafton unveils Ludi 0.2, AI designed to help robots work with humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Krafton, the Korean video game publisher behind the global hit PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, is taking its artificial intelligence (AI) research beyond virtual worlds, unveiling a new robotics system designed to help machines understand human intentions, respond to social cues and work alongside people.<\/p>\n

Ludo Robotics, Krafton’s robotics research subsidiary, introduced Ludi 0.2 on Friday at the 2026 Bay Area Robotics Symposium, held at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

The presentation was led by Lee Kang-wook, Krafton’s chief AI officer and chief technology officer of Ludo Robotics.<\/p>\n

The new system builds on Ludi 0.1, introduced in August, with improvements aimed at making robots more responsive to changing situations and more capable of interacting naturally with humans.<\/p>\n

Ludo Robotics focuses on what it calls social intelligence: the ability of robots to understand people’s intentions, adapt to changing environments and cooperate naturally.<\/p>\n

Ludi 0.2 enhances several capabilities, including recognizing human gestures and feedback, maintaining context during changing tasks, connecting movement with object manipulation and responding with smoother physical actions.<\/p>\n

Its predecessor, Ludi 0.1, combined a vision-language model responsible for conversation and reasoning with capabilities for navigation and object manipulation.<\/p>\n

The system can understand spoken instructions, maintain conversational context and ask follow-up questions when commands are unclear.<\/p>\n

For example, a robot carrying a requested drink can stop and switch to another beverage when a person changes the instruction mid-task.<\/p>\n

Ludo Robotics is also developing Ludi 1.0, a next-generation foundation model intended to integrate environmental perception, conversation and physical actions into a single system.<\/p>\n

The goal is to enable robots to communicate with people in real time while sharing an understanding of assigned tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrawing on this experience, we will develop AI for robots that can communicate and cooperate naturally with people in the real world,\u201d Krafton and Ludo Robotics CEO Kim Chang-han said.<\/p>\n

Krafton also announced that Ludo Robotics has officially opened its headquarters research center in Palo Alto, California, which will work alongside its Seoul office to advance AI and robotics research.<\/p>\n

This article was published with the assistance of generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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