Palo Alto's Ludo Robotics shows new AI meant to help robots understand people
The startup, owned by the South Korean company behind the video game PUBG, presented Ludi 0.2 at a UC Berkeley robotics conference.
Ludo Robotics, a Palo Alto startup owned by South Korean video game company KRAFTON, presented a new version of its robot AI on Oct. 30 at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium at UC Berkeley, KRAFTON said in a press release. KRAFTON makes PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, a popular online shooting game.
The system, called Ludi 0.2, is meant to help robots understand what people want, respond to feedback and adapt as a task changes, the company said. It said the new version is better at memory and reasoning, reading hand gestures and moving smoothly.
The first version, Ludi 0.1, came out in August. The company said it paired a vision-language model, a type of AI that works with both images and text, with skills for moving around and handling objects. It could follow spoken instructions and ask clarifying questions.
"Understanding and responding to people remains a major challenge," said Kangwook Lee, KRAFTON's chief AI officer and Ludo's chief technology officer.
The release did not include test results for Ludi 0.2. The company said a larger system, Ludi 1.0, is in development. Ludo also has a research lab in Seoul.
Source: KRAFTON press release via PR Newswire, Oct. 30, 2026, Ludo Robotics website, Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2026 and Ludi 0.1 paper on arXiv.