South Korea's Hyundai Workers Strike Over Humanoid Robots: Sci-Fi Scenarios Meet the ...

Hyundai workers staged a three-day partial strike explicitly over humanoid robot deployment, demanding job preservation guarantees alongside wage increases as the company plans to roll out Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots in US facilities by 2028. The union has stated that no new robotics technology will enter South Korean plants without labor-management agreement, marking the first major automotive factory action globally tied to humanoid robot concerns.

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