William Sunoo Kim — Physical AI | Undergraduate Research Intern

About

I'm a Senior at DGIST majoring in Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and an Undergraduate Research Intern at Interactive Robot Lab, DGIST. I work on Physical AI. My research keyword is Embodied intelligence, robot learning, and robot perception. I build agents that can understand and act in the physical world. My ultimate goal is to build a Real-Life Baymax.

Research Focus

Tactile sensing and soft sensing for contact-rich manipulation.
Embodied intelligence: perception-action loops and affordances.
Multimodal grounding for control and planning.
Building Baymax!

Lab Projects

Inflatable Whole-Body Robotic Skin with Internal ToF Depth Sensing

May 2025 – Current, at Interactive Robot Lab, DGIST

Inflatable robotic skin using a single-piece envelope with 116 ToF sensors across 16 modules at 20 Hz.
Detects whole-body contact during human-robot interaction, providing geometric safety margins and sensitive contact measurement.
A neural network predicts nominal skin geometry from joint angles to localize external contact as deviations.

Project Page

Personal Projects

Dual-Arm Robot

Dec 2025 – Feb 2026, at R.O.D, the Robot Club at DGIST

Built for under $300. Left arm has 6 axes, right arm has 4 axes.

2025 IST-TECH Robotics Competition

Oct 2025 • 🏆 DGIST Champion

Inter-university competition among UNIST, POSTECH, and DGIST. Board-flipping event. DGIST took 1st place.

Experience

Integrated BS/MS/PhD Course — Interactive Robot Lab, DGIST 2026 – Present • Daegu, South Korea

Undergraduate Research Intern — Interactive Robot Lab, DGIST January, 2025 – 2026 • Daegu, South Korea

Publications / Writing

Juhee Park^†, Sunoo Kim^†, Yunseong Bang, Sangjin Kang, Joohyung Kim, Jung Kim, Kyungseo Park^*. "Inflatable Whole-Body Robotic Skin with Internal Time-of-Flight (ToF) Depth Sensing and Kinematics-Based Point-Cloud Prediction". IROS 2026 (Submitted). project page

^† Equal contribution ^* Corresponding author

Contact

Email: koreasunoo@dgist.ac.kr