{"id":627295,"date":"2026-10-11T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627295\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:50:18","slug":"robot-baristas-and-k-pop-dancers-lead-south-koreas-physical-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627295\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot baristas and K-pop dancers lead South Korea&#8217;s physical AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20261008 Galaxy Robot Park\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Galaxy Robot Park, a robot-themed park that opened in Seoul in August 2026, features live performances by humanoid robots. (Galaxy Corp.)<\/p>\n<p>NAMI MATSUURA<\/p>\n<p>October 11, 2026 10:43 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; Entertainment venues featuring advanced robots powered by physical artificial intelligence are spreading across South Korea, creating spaces where visitors can experience the evolution of AI through robot baristas and humanoids that dance to K-pop alongside humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galaxy Robot Park, a robot-themed park that opened in Seoul in August 2026, features live performances by humanoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,291887,16424,195391,3856,34546,7240,111,139,69,2849,5149,1240,145],"class_list":["post-627295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-baristas","tag-boom","tag-dancers","tag-k-pop","tag-koreas","tag-lead","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-physical","tag-robot","tag-south","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}