Dton Robotics’ Quadruped Robot Featured in NVIDIA ‘GTC 2026’ Keynote Video

Performs welding work while climbing steel walls
Featured in keynote video by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Quadruped robot "Dton Spider" showcased

On March 16 (local time), physical AI startup Dton Robotics showcased its robotic technology in the keynote video of Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, at NVIDIA GTC 2026 held in San Jose, California, USA.

GTC 2026 is the world’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) conference, attracting around 30,000 participants from 190 countries. This year, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang centered his keynote on physical AI and robotics, presenting the future direction of industry.

Footage from GTC 2026 featuring Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, included the quadruped robot 'Dido Spider' developed by Dido Robotics freely climbing up and down a steel wall while performing welding tasks.

According to Dton Robotics, the keynote video featured the quadruped robot ‘Dton Spider,’ developed by Dton Robotics, climbing up and down steel walls freely while performing welding tasks. NVIDIA introduced Dton Robotics’ technology as a representative example of the physical AI ecosystem being applied to real industrial sites.

Dton Spider is a robot that performs welding, inspection, and maintenance work while moving along vertical walls or ceilings, based on electromagnetic permanent magnet (EPM) technology. Its key feature is the ability to operate efficiently inside shipyard blocks, bridges, and plants—large steel structures that fixed robots have traditionally struggled to access. Currently, this robot has already been delivered to major domestic shipbuilders, with additional contracts underway.

Dton Robotics was co-founded in 2024 by four researchers from the Humanoid Robot Research Center at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST. The company possesses comprehensive technological capabilities, developing not only all hardware—including actuators and electronics—but also software such as gait control, vision AI, and simulation-based learning in-house. In addition to Dton Spider, the company is developing the industrial bipedal platform ‘Dton Walker’ and the full-body industrial humanoid ‘Dton Humanoid,’ with plans to expand its services to a variety of industrial environments in the future.

Junha Kim, CEO of Dton Robotics, said, “The introduction of Dton Spider in the GTC keynote demonstrates that Dton’s technology is recognized on the global stage as being operational in real industrial sites. We will continue to enhance our technological edge in both hardware and software, broadening the range of industrial environments where robots can truly work.”

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