Samsung Electronics has established a Robotics eXperience (RX) Business Promotion Office that volition beryllium led by CEO TM Roh. This part volition consolidate Samsung’s existing robotic probe and improvement efforts.
Lee Dong-geon, who antecedently led robot strategies for Boston Dynamics portion helium was astatine Hyundai, volition service arsenic the caput of the Robotics Strategy Team. The RX part volition beryllium headquartered astatine Samsung’s Seoul R&D Campus successful Umyeon-dong, but the institution volition unfastened probe hubs successful the US, China and Japan.
Samsung’s program is to absorption connected concern robots archetypal – it wants to usage precocious robotics for automation crossed its manufacturing facilities arsenic a proving crushed earlier offering specified robots to different manufacturers. If each goes according to plan, each Samsung manufacturing facilities volition crook into “AI autonomous factories” by 2030.
Samsung is funny successful humanoid robots excessively – Kim Eui-gyeom, an Ajou University prof specializing successful robotic hands and manipulation, has besides joined the RX team. Samsung already had a Robotic Hand Lab, which reportedly has developed a highly precocious but undisclosed robo-hand technology.
Additionally, Samsung volition money robotics startups and volition question to further fortify its presumption done mergers and acquisitions. This is already underway – successful 2024, Samsung became the largest shareholder successful Rainbow Robotics, which makes robots similar the robo canine successful the video above.
There is nary shortage of competition. You whitethorn person seen Tesla’s Optimus robot (which became the absorption of the Fremont works aft Tesla killed disconnected the Model S and X), but there’s more. A fewer weeks agone LG announced its Robotics Business Center. An Honor robot precocious won a fractional marathon, Unitree has humanoid robots, 1 of which was utilized to drop trial phones. Hisense announced a humanoid robot named Harley this January.
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