NC AI brings physical AI to LEAP 2026 in Riyadh
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Korean company NC AI announced on Monday that it will operate a joint booth for the Korean Full-Stack AI Integration alliance at the LEAP 2026 exhibition held at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center from Monday to Thursday. The exhibition receives more than 201,000 visitors from 203 countries and features over a thousand speakers, including AMD CEO Lisa Su and physicist Michio Kaku
Physical AINC AI focuses on its VAETKI sector-specific technology and demonstrates how AI can move from digital environments to operate in the physical world. The technology suite it will showcase includes digital twins for creating virtual spaces, world models for understanding physical environments, and foundational models for robots to control machines. Demonstrations using VARCO 3D and VAETKI Twin will recreate a logistics hub, urban neighborhoods, buildings, the LEAP exhibition hall and the alliance booth in three-dimensional environments
3D generation capabilitiesThe company said VARCO 3D can generate detailed 3D assets from text or images, supporting formats up to 4K resolution, which may reduce the time and cost required to build digital twins. NC AI plans to leverage its expertise in shipbuilding and defence industries in Korea to explore applications in Saudi Arabia, including manufacturing automation and unmanned defence systems
Saudi-Korean partnershipsDuring LEAP 2026, the company will meet Saudi government officials and local firms, seeking commercial partnerships and coordination with other members of the Korean alliance, including MegazoneCloud, Upstage, FuriosaAI and Uracle, which together showcase Korean capabilities ranging from AI semiconductors and models to cloud and infrastructure
Implication for the region: the presence of a full-stack Korean alliance at Saudi Arabia’s largest tech event is not a peripheral participation but an indication that Riyadh has become a real crossroads for supplying advanced Korean technology, from chips to models to physical applications, for major Saudi projects. For engineers or decision-makers in the Gulf, the message is clear: the Korean physical AI value chain is looking for an operational foothold in the region, and the door is open for those who define use cases early