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NC AI·포스코DX, 로봇 AI브레인 공동 개발 맞손
피지컬 AI 선도기업 NC AI가 29일 포스코DX와 로봇 파운데이션 모델 공동 개발 및 기술 협력을 위한 전략적 업무협약을 체결했다고 밝혔다. 사진은 협약식에서 왼쪽부터 김민재 NC AI CTO, 윤석준 포스코DX 로봇자동화센터장.[사진=NC AI] [경제일보] NC AI가 포스코DX와 손잡고 다양한 로봇에 적용할 수 있는 인공지능(AI) 브레인 개발에 나선다. 로봇이 단순 반복 작업을 넘어 주변 상황을 인식하고 스스로 판단하는 ‘피지컬 AI’ 기술 개발을 본격화하겠다는 구상이다. NC AI는 지난 29일 포스코DX와 로봇 파운데이션 모델(RFM·Robot Foundation Model) 공동 개발과 기술 협력을 위한 전략적 업무협약을 체결했다고 밝혔다. 협약식은 성남 판교 NC AI 본사에서 열렸으며 김민재 NC AI 최고기술책임자(CTO), 윤석준 포스코DX 로봇자동화센터장 등 양사 주요 관계자가 참석했다. ◆ 피지컬 AI 경쟁, 로봇의 ‘두뇌’로 이동 이번 협력은 글로벌 AI 경쟁의 무게중심이 화면 속 생성형 AI를 넘어 현실 세계에서 움직이는 피지컬 AI로 확장되는 흐름과 맞닿아 있다. 그동안 로봇은 정해진 공정에서 반복 작업을 수행하는 자동화 장비에 가까웠다. 하지만 제조·물류·국방·서비스 현장에서는 예측하기 어려운 상황을 스스로 인식하고 판단하는 로봇 수요가 커지고 있다. 글로벌 시장에서도 로봇 파운데이션 모델과 VLA 모델 연구가 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 로봇 파운데이션 모델은 로봇이 다양한 환경과 작업을 이해하도록 돕는 범용 AI 모델이다. VLA 모델은 시각, 언어, 행동 데이터를 함께 처리해 로봇이 “무엇을 보고, 어떤 지시를 이해하며, 어떻게 움직일지”를 연결하는 기술이다. 사람으로 치면 눈과 언어 이해, 행동 판단을 하나의 두뇌 체계로 묶는 방식이다. 양사는 이번 협약을 통해 로봇 파운데이션 모델 공동 연구, 시각·언어·행동 통합 VLA 모델 최적화, 디지털 트윈 기반 시뮬레이션 환경 구축, 로봇 지능화 기술 검증, 운영 안정화와 기술 지원 등을 함께 추진한다. 핵심은 특정 로봇 한 종류가 아니라 다양한 로봇에 적용할 수 있는 범용 로봇 AI 모델을 개발하는 데 있다. ◆ 산업 현장 실증이 성패 가른다 기존 로봇은 사전에 입력된 작업을 빠르고 정확하게 반복하는 데 강점이 있지만, 작업 환경이 바뀌거나 돌발 상황이 발생하면 대응력이 떨어진다. 산업 현장에서 로봇 활용 범위가 넓어질수록 단순 제어 기술보다 현장을 이해하는 AI 판단 기술이 중요해지는 이유다. NC AI는 차세대 로봇 파운데이션 모델의 핵심 기술인 VLA 모델 최적화와 디지털 트윈 환경 구축에 역량을 집중한다. 디지털 트윈은 현실 산업 현장을 가상공간에 정밀하게 구현해 로봇 AI를 미리 훈련하고 검증하는 기술이다. 실제 현장에 투입하기 전 수많은 상황을 가상환경에서 반복 실험할 수 있어 안전성과 효율성을 높이는 데 유리하다. 포스코DX는 자동화와 로보틱스 엔지니어링 역량을 바탕으로 디지털 트윈 기반 테스트 환경 구성과 기술 실증을 지원한다. 특히 제조·제철 등 복잡하고 위험도가 높은 산업 현장에서 축적한 자동화 운영 경험은 로봇 AI의 실사용 가능성을 검증하는 데 중요한 기반이 될 수 있다. NC AI는 앞서 포스코DX 등이 참여하는 독자 AI 파운데이션 모델 컨소시엄을 구성한 데 이어, 현대로템과 국방 피지컬 AI 관련 국책 연구개발 과제에도 참여하고 있다. 이번 포스코DX와의 협력은 제조·산업 현장으로 피지컬 AI 적용 범위를 넓히는 흐름으로 읽힌다. 다만 범용 로봇 AI가 실제 산업 현장에 안착하기 위해서는 기술 검증과 안전성 확보가 필수다. 로봇이 낯선 환경에서 자율적으로 움직이기 위해서는 데이터 품질, 시뮬레이션 정확도, 현장 장비와의 연동성, 장애 상황 대응 체계가 함께 갖춰져야 한다. 양사의 협력이 단순 연구를 넘어 실제 현장 실증과 상용 모델 확보로 이어지는지가 앞으로의 핵심 변수가 될 전망이다. 김민재 NC AI CTO는 “범용 로봇 기술은 다양한 산업 환경에서 활용 가능한 차세대 AI 기술로 빠르게 발전하고 있다”며 “포스코DX와의 협력을 통해 로봇 AI 기술 경쟁력을 강화하고 글로벌 시장을 목표로 범용 피지컬 AI 생태계를 함께 선도해 나갈 것”이라고 말했다. 윤석준 포스코DX 로봇자동화센터장은 “전문기술 보유 기업과의 지속적인 협력을 통해 로봇제어·운영 플랫폼 등 핵심 솔루션을 내재화하고 고위험·고강도 현장의 자동화 기술 수준을 높여가고 있다”며 “이번 협력을 통해 범용 로봇의 산업현장에서의 활용 가능성을 확인할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다”고 밝혔다.
2026-05-31 13:01:00
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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23
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