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Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) · Myeongdong, Seoul · 2026.04.10

1st Place Humanoid Real-World Challenge

The first public demonstration of bipedal, Physical AI–based garment-packing automation

Recognized for a field demonstration in which the ROBROS humanoid IGRIS performed garment packing at a Lotte Global Logistics site — a representative case of a humanoid carrying out unstructured manipulation in a real industrial setting.

Team Dongwoo Son, Junho An, Chanwoo Seon, Jinwoo Lee

  • ROBROS IGRIS C
  • Lotte Global Logistics
  • Garment-Packing Automation
  • Manipulation

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2026

  • Paper
    We published the project page for HITMEN, our hybrid interface for humanoid teleoperation — an HMD for the head, chest-mounted VR controllers for the torso, shoulder-mounted leader arms for the arms, and VR together with wrist cameras for the fingers. It anticipates the next second of hand-tracking reliability from recent motion and shifts finger control toward the wrist cameras when tracking degrades. All six of our graduate students are authors. Project page
  • Paper
    We published the project page for PATACON, our work on constrained motion planning. It picks expansion directions inside local tangent spaces and projects and validates several candidate edges in parallel on the GPU, reaching up to 11.25x lower planning latency than a GPU baseline from 7-DoF manipulators to 35-DoF whole-body humanoids, with real-robot replanning against a moving obstacle. arXiv:2610.13195 Project page
  • Event
    Invited talk for our internship program: “Reproducible ROS 2 Systems — From Trial and Error to Research” (Sanghoon Lee, Ph.D., DGIST). Event page
  • Award
    DREAM Lab. won 1st place at the KIRIA Humanoid Real-World Challenge for automating garment packing with the humanoid IGRIS at a Lotte Global Logistics site. 🏆 The Robot Times
  • Event
    ROSCon Korea 2026, Korea’s first official ROS developer conference, chaired by Prof. Suhan Park, was held at Kwangwoon University’s Pangyo Campus. The Korea Times

2025

  • Grant
    DREAM Lab. won a government grant from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR) — Development of a humanoid robot specialized for distribution processes based on AI foundation models (joint research). Press
  • Paper
    Our paper, “LiPo: A Lightweight Post-optimization Framework for Smoothing Action Chunks Generated by Learned Policies,” has been published in IJCAS (SCIE). 🎉
  • Paper
    Our paper, “GUARD: Toward a Compromise between Traditional Control and Learning for Safe Robot Systems,” has been accepted for presentation at an IROS 2025 Workshop. 🎉
  • Paper
    Our paper, “Learning Implicit Force in Ice-Cream Scooping,” has been accepted for presentation at the IROS 2025 Workshop CIM. 🎉
  • Grant
    DREAM Lab. won a grant from the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) under the 2025 Humanoid Robot Demonstration Program — Early demonstration and commercialization study of AI bipedal humanoids (joint research). Press
  • Paper
    Our paper, “Model-based Walking and RL-based Walking for Humanoid Kid size,” has been accepted for presentation at the Humanoids 2025 Workshop (w/ RO:BIT undergraduate students). 🎉
  • Paper
    Our paper, “LiPo: A Lightweight Post-optimization Framework for Smoothing Action Chunks Generated by Learned Policies,” has been accepted for publication in IJCAS (SCIE). 🎉
  • Member
    Chanwoo Seon joined our lab! 👋
  • Member
    Jinwoo Lee joined our lab! 👋
  • Award
    Prof. Suhan Park’s course on autonomous manipulation learning was selected for the 2025 AI·Digital (AID) Intensive Program for working professionals (National Institute for Lifelong Education, Ministry of Education). 🎉
  • Member
    Gahyun Oh joined our lab! 👋
  • Member
    Yunsu Noh joined our lab! 👋
  • Member
    Dongwoo Son joined our lab! 👋
  • News
    Suhan Park joined Kwangwoon University and DREAM Lab. was founded. 🎉

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