Three ways to encounter physical AI — performance, interaction and everyday service
Galaxy Robot Park's varied robots can be explored as performers, interaction partners and everyday service providers: a visitor-centered way to understand physical AI.
Key takeawayGalaxy Corporation presents Galaxy Robot Park as the world’s first Physical AI theme park. The roughly 16,500 m² site in Godeok, Gangdong-gu, Seoul, had a pre-opening in July 2026 and officially opened on 21 August, when 17 new robot types joined. Reported content falls into three scenes: performances such as K-pop choreography and robot boxing, interactions such as hugging and direct control, and everyday services such as ice-cream making.
Connecting physical AI and the park
Physical AI is the idea of artificial intelligence interacting with the real world through a physical body such as a robot. Galaxy Corporation’s concept guide defines it as ‘AI that was once confined to a screen gaining a body in the form of a robot, and reaching the stage of perceiving, judging and moving in the physical world’, and places it in the same lineage as embodied AI.
The same guide distinguishes traditional robots, which repeat programmed motions, from physical AI robots, which perceive their surroundings through sensors, make their own judgements and adjust their actions. The company says it uses motion capture to convert idol choreography into robot data and reproduce it, and claims to be the first to apply physical AI to entertainment.
According to the company’s guide, the park covers roughly 16,500 m² (5,000 pyeong) in Godeok, Gangdong-gu, Seoul, and officially opened on 21 August 2026 after a pre-opening in July. Chief executive Choi Yong-ho expects a life shared with robots to arrive within 10 to 20 years and describes the park as the first point of contact for experiencing it.
01 · Robots on stage
The K-pop Robot Arena is where the movements of many robots come together as a single performance. In its pre-opening report of 3 July 2026, Newsis introduced the K-pop robot group performance and robot boxing show in the Robot Arena, and covered the interactive experience zone alongside them.
According to the plan reported in the article, the goal after the official opening was to run at least four performances a day and more than 1,000 a year in the Robot Arena. These are targets stated by the company and should be read separately from the number of performances actually staged.
Quoting Choi Yong-ho, Newsis reported that the company presents the venue as the world’s first physical AI theme park where people and robots perform together. The route that emerges from the coverage starts with the pleasure of watching robots and then moves on to the experience zones.
02 · Interaction with people
Hugging, drawing and hands-on control are the ways visitors form a relationship with the robots. Digital Chosun’s report of 21 August 2026 listed boxing robots, hugging robots, drawing robots, portrait robots and robots remotely controlled by visitors side by side.
Read through that report, the experiences on offer are distinct: being hugged, sitting as the subject of a drawing, or taking part in controlling a robot. The same article said 17 robot types were added for the grand opening and that the roughly 5,000-pyeong park had received a cumulative 20,000 visitors during the pre-opening period.
According to remarks by Choi Yong-ho carried in Digital Chosun, the company reads the 20,000 visitors before the official opening as interest in robot content, and intends to run the site as a space that combines content with physical AI. That the range of experiences has grown is a separate matter from the level of autonomy of each robot.
03 · Familiar everyday roles
The ice-cream making and piano playing shown in Asia Today’s photo coverage of the grand opening on 21 August 2026 connect to the familiar activities of food and music. A robot drawing portraits appeared in the same coverage.
Asia Today described the venue as a cultural complex combining robotics with culture and entertainment, and relayed the company’s explanation that the 17 robot types added for the opening had broadened both the content and the experience spaces. The phrase about physical AI realised in everyday life also comes from that report.
The three categories used in this article group reported content by the visitor’s experience; they say nothing about the autonomy or technical specifications of individual robots. Whether the robot making ice cream and the robots dancing on stage are controlled in the same way cannot be known from the coverage alone.
How does the human role change?
In a performance, the audience watches a piece of group choreography and a story. In a hands-on scene such as mirroring, a person’s movement becomes the input; in a service such as a portrait or an ice cream, the visitor is the one who receives an outcome. All three share a space with robots, but the way input is given and results are obtained differs in each case.
It helps, then, to ask three things separately: what does the person supply, what does the robot do, and what does the person receive? The distinction the company’s guide draws between traditional robots and physical AI robots can be examined through the same lens. It is a way of observing that avoids treating a robot following human-supplied movement and a robot judging its environment on its own as the same technology.
Frequently asked questions
What is physical AI?
Physical AI refers to AI at the stage of perceiving, judging and moving in the real world through a physical body such as a robot. Galaxy Corporation’s guide places it in the same lineage as embodied AI.
What robots can you see at Galaxy Robot Park?
According to press coverage, Galaxy Robot Park has K-pop choreography robots and boxing robots, hugging, drawing and portrait robots, robots remotely controlled by visitors, ice-cream-making robots and piano-playing robots. Seventeen new robot types joined for the official opening on 21 August 2026.
How many robot performances a day does Galaxy Robot Park aim to run?
Galaxy Robot Park has said it aims to run at least four performances a day and more than 1,000 a year after its official opening. Check the park’s official channels for the actual schedule and the latest visitor information.
Where is Galaxy Robot Park and when did it open?
Galaxy Robot Park sits on a roughly 16,500 m² (about 5,000 pyeong) site in the Godeok area of Gangdong-gu, Seoul. It first opened with a pre-opening in July 2026 and officially opened on 21 August the same year.