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Samsung creates CEO-led robotics office to speed humanoid push

Published

21 July 2026

Topic

operational-macro

Sectors

RoboticsAI InfrastructureManufacturing Tech

Geography

South Korea

Source

Read at m.ajupress.com

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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. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur reasons over.

The Wire takeaway

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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Robotics · AI Infrastructure · Manufacturing Tech · humanoid-robotics · manufacturing-automation · samsung-strategy · data-infrastructure · ai-factories