{"slug": "chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project", "title": "Chungnam National University selected for physical AI development, talent training project", "summary": "Chungnam National University has been selected as the lead institution for a government-backed artificial intelligence (AI) technology and talent development program, receiving up to 11 billion won ($8.2 million) in funding over five years from the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation. Led by Professor Park Ji-hun of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, the project will develop foundational physical AI technologies, including multimodal foundation models, optimized on-device inference, multiagent collaboration, and continual learning, to address challenges in unstructured agricultural environments.", "body_md": "Chungnam National University has been selected as the lead institution for the government-backed artificial intelligence (AI) technology and talent development program. The university said Monday that it will develop foundational technologies in physical AI and nurture top-tier AI talent under the program. The initiative is funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT and supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation. The research project will be led by Park Ji-hun, a professor at the university’s School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. The university said that it will receive up to 11 billion won ($8.2 million) in government research and development funding over the next five years. The research team plans to develop core physical AI technologies, including multimodal foundation models, optimized on-device inference, multiagent collaboration and continual learning. The team seeks to use these technologies to address a range of challenges encountered in unstructured agricultural environments. It also aims to integrate the entire physical", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/education/20260908/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-training-project?utm_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-09-08 05:22:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 05:31:04.261749+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Chungnam National University", "Park Ji-hun", "Ministry of Science and ICT", "Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chungnam-national-university-selected-for-physical-ai-development-talent-project.jsonld"}}