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South Korean researcher wins November science award for domestic AI humanoid robot

2026-11-06 Category: Briefs Comments(0)

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea said Lee Jong-won of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology was selected as the winner of the November Korea Science and Technology Award for developing KAPEX, an AI humanoid robot built with domestically developed core technologies.

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