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His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same. The hotel chain is one of many companies South Korean artificial-intelligence startup RLWRLD (pronounced "real world") is working with to create an extensive library of human expertise, harvested from skilled workers across industries, to develop AI brains for robots that could be coming to industrial sites and homes. It collects similar data from logistics workers at CJ, capturing how they grip, lift and handle goods in warehouses, and from staff at a Japanese convenience store chain Lawson, tracking how they organise food displays. The goal is to build an AI software layer that can work in robots across a range of factories and other work sites in coming years, before potentially expanding into homes. ...
There is a need to relax criteria for India's PLI scheme for automobiles to enable electric vehicle start-ups to benefit and contribute to the country's green mobility journey, according to Euler Motors Founder & CEO Saurav Kumar. The high ceiling for revenue and investments outlined in the PLI for the auto sector has meant that a company like Euler Motors, despite being among the top players in the electric small trucks and three-wheeler cargo segment, has not been able to participate in the scheme, Kumar told PTI in an interview. As per the eligibility criteria of the auto PLI scheme, an OEM must have a minimum global group revenue of Rs 10,000 crore and invest in fixed assets worth Rs 3,000 crore. "That unfortunately did not incentivise start-ups like us who are equally investing in this space and pushing the technology and R&D at the forefront," he lamented. In terms of products, Euler Motors has both electric four-wheeler and three-wheeler commercial cargo vehicles, which