Just Do it Lab (JDL)@KAIST is a research institute equipped with a platform for commercialization based on convergence technology. It is an Open Lab that works closely with domestic and overseas research institutes, companies, investment institutes, legal consulting agencies, and global start-ups for commercialization.
Researchers and students associated with JDL@KAIST can come to establish themselves as Global Start-up Entrepreneurs even after their graduation and departure from the lab by advancing projects connected with business during the pursuit of their college research degree, utilizing the JDL@KAIST’s Global Start-up Platform as a leverage.
Research Focus Areas
Pioneering AI-Driven Next-Generation Manufacturing
Our research integrates artificial intelligence, advanced additive manufacturing, and autonomous systems to transform how complex products are designed, optimized, and produced in real-world environments.
Additive Manufacturing Processes & Functional Materials
Advancing vat photopolymerization, digital light processing, material extrusion, and directed energy deposition, from the resin and nanocomposite chemistry up to real-time control of the process as it prints.
Physical AI for Autonomous Manufacturing
Building AI that can run a process, not just describe one. Large language and vision models read machine and sensor data, capture the tacit know-how of experienced operators, and close the control loop on additive manufacturing without a human at every step.
Next-Generation Drone Production
Rethinking how a drone is built. We print a flat 2D sheet that deploys into a functional 3D airframe, so aircraft can be produced at low cost and high rate, and made where they are needed rather than shipped there.
Future of the drone manufacturing: 2D sheet to 3D structure
This conceptual video, titled “Future of the drone manufacturing: 2D sheet to 3D structure,” visualizes our core research philosophy of achieving rapid and robust manufacturing. To enable on-demand, decentralized production regardless of location, we are integrating 3D printing technology with folding-inspired deployable architectures. By rapidly printing a planar 2D sheet that systematically expands into a functional 3D aerodynamic structure, we aim to pioneer a highly efficient and scalable manufacturing paradigm for next-generation drones. (*This conceptual video was generated by AI)
Stereolithography Apparatus(SLA)-printed Shape Memory Polymers(SMPs) with complex geometries that recover within 11s upon thermal heating using hot water
Reference: Choong, Y. Y. C., Maleksaeedi, S., Eng, H., Wei, J., & Su, P. C. (2017). 4D printing of high performance shape memory polymer using stereolithography. Materials & Design, 126, 219-225.