Bigwave Robotics showcases industrial Physical AI at Seoul summit

Bigwave Robotics hosted BIGWAVE SHIFT 2026 in Seoul on Oct. 22, bringing together eight companies and industry leaders to discuss how Physical AI can move from development to deployment in factories and logistics operations. The event also put Bigwave’s Hyper Foundry platform on display and set up the summit as an annual forum.

Why it matters: - Industrial Physical AI is moving from concept to operational testing, with the summit focused on how AI systems can be validated and deployed on real equipment. - Bigwave Robotics used the event to position itself in a market where manufacturers and logistics operators want repeatable robot capabilities, not just lab demos. - The summit also signaled growing interest in software and workflow tools that connect robot data, model training and deployment.

What happened: - Bigwave Robotics hosted BIGWAVE SHIFT 2026 - Industrial Physical AI Summit at SKY31 in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 22, 2026. - The summit brought together manufacturing executives, robotics and AI developers, and researchers. - The program included nine sessions featuring presentations from eight companies: NVIDIA, TwelveLabs, PwC Consulting, NC AI, RealWorld, DexRobot, Rainbow Robotics and Bigwave Robotics. - The event also included a demonstration of Bigwave’s Hyper Foundry platform and a partner exhibition.

The details: - The summit theme was “Physical AI Moves Industry.” - Presentations covered simulation, model training and inference, industry-specific multimodal AI, robot foundation models, and adoption and commercialization challenges. - Minsoo Song, senior manager at NVIDIA, opened the presentation program. - Bigwave Robotics CEO Minkyo Kim presented the company’s view of the industrial Physical AI market and its roadmap. - Bigwave CTO Junbong Song closed the program with a framework linking robot data to model development and deployment. - Bigwave demonstrated Hyper Foundry with a humanoid robot. - The demo showed a workflow connecting robot data collection, AI model training and robot motion. - Hyper Foundry combines four components in one development environment: Data Studio, Model Studio, Mission Studio and Data Library. - Data Studio collects and synchronizes robot data. - Model Studio supports imitation learning and reinforcement learning. - Mission Studio connects trained models to robots for deployment and execution. - Data Library manages datasets, models and deployment histories. - The demonstration showed how trained models move through development stages, while the sessions addressed the additional evaluation needed for customer-specific tasks and operating conditions. - DexRobot, Rainbow Robotics, RealWorld and TwelveLabs showcased technologies in the partner exhibition and networking lounge. - Industry and research representatives discussed technical capabilities, applications and future collaboration opportunities. - Bigwave provides robot integration, automation solutions and software platforms, including SOLlink for multi-robot operations and Hyper Foundry for Physical AI development. - Bigwave serves customers ranging from small and midsize enterprises to large industrial groups, including Samsung, SK and Hyundai Motor Group. - More information is available in the company’s announcement. - Bigwave Robotics’ U.S. contact number is +1 313-638-8229. - Bigwave Robotics also links to its LinkedIn page at the company’s LinkedIn profile.

Between the lines: - The summit was as much a market-building event as a technical conference, with Bigwave bringing together potential partners, customers and developers around a common deployment problem. - The focus on validation, commercialization and operating conditions suggests the industry still sees a gap between AI performance in development and performance on factory floors. - Bigwave’s platform demo and conference format together framed the company as both a software provider and a convening force in industrial robotics.

What's next: - Bigwave plans to make SHIFT an annual forum. - Future editions will focus on emerging technologies and implementation priorities across industry. - Kim said the event will evolve each year around the technologies and innovation agendas that industrial sites are watching most closely. - Bigwave said the forum will continue connecting AI developers, robotics companies, researchers and industrial users around future industry direction.

The bottom line: - Bigwave Robotics is trying to turn Physical AI from a promising concept into a practical industrial workflow, and it is using SHIFT to build both credibility and community around that goal.