Soongsil University's Metaverse Graduate School Participates in KMF 2026, Demonstrates Robot Remote Control

Soongsil University's Metaverse Graduate School showcased its advanced robotics and virtual convergence technologies at KMF 2026, an event linked to the '2026 Virtual Convergence Graduate School Performance Sharing Conference' held in Seoul. The university presented key research outcomes, including a live demonstration of humanoid robot remote control.

The event, organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP), featured a joint pavilion operated by eight universities participating in the virtual convergence graduate school program. Soongsil University highlighted its research through real-time robot teleoperation demonstrations, presentations of outstanding theses, and case studies from industry-academia collaboration projects.

A notable demonstration involved a humanoid robot developed by the university's Reality Lab. Visitors could interact by requesting the robot to perform tasks, such as picking up objects, with an operator controlling the robot in real-time. This interactive display captured significant attention from attendees.

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It was impressive to see visitors directly interact with the robots and experience virtual convergence and robot technology more closely. We will continue to foster a research environment where students can continuously challenge themselves with high-level core technologies to achieve further results in the virtual convergence field.

In the research presentations, the university introduced 'DynScene,' a technology for generating large-scale dynamic robot manipulation data for Embodied AI, which was presented at CVPR 2025. Additionally, a 'Personalized Media Persona Analysis and Reporting System' that analyzes individual YouTube viewing habits using federated learning was presented as an industry-academia collaboration case.

Further highlighting the school's research prowess, a visual-language model-based multi-agent fact-checking system called 'VILLAIN,' co-authored by Master's student Yoon Ye-jun, secured first place globally in the EACL 2026 FEVER fact-checking competition, demonstrating high performance in online disinformation detection.

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It was meaningful to be able to confirm the implementation of research results in the field by controlling the humanoid robot we directly participated in developing in real-time in front of visitors. We want to develop it into robot technology that can be utilized in various environments based on remote control technology.