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Samsung creates CEO-led robotics office to speed humanoid push
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Samsung Electronics establishes a CEO-reported robotics office (RX Business Office) to centralise humanoid robot development and commercialisation, consolidating R&D at Seoul campus and building data infrastructure at Gumi plant. The move follows the 2024 Rainbow Robotics acquisition and supports Samsung's goal to convert all manufacturing sites to AI-powered autonomous factories by 2030.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Robotics, AI Infrastructure and Manufacturing Tech, and 2 sources have reported it between 21 Jul 2026 and 24 Jul 2026.
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Samsung just made humanoid robots a board-level priority with dedicated factories and global hiring - if you're selling robot components, sensors, data platforms or AI training infrastructure to manufacturers, you now have a customer with $60bn in annual revenue and a 2030 deadline. The real shift: Samsung's moving from 'let's buy a robotics company' to 'we're building autonomous factories', which means they need vendors who can ship at scale this year, not prototype next year.
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2 sources · first reported 21 Jul 2026 · latest 24 Jul 2026
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