Hyundai Motor Group will unveil its Autonomous Driving and Humanoid Robot strategies at Kia's CEO Investor Day next month. The heads of the group's Autonomous Driving and Humanoid Robot divisions are set to take the stage themselves. They are expected to outline commercialization road maps for each technology.
According to the industry on the 12th, Kia will hold the "2026 CEO Investor Day" on the 9th next month. On that day, Kia President Song Ho-sung will be joined by Park Min-woo, head of Advanced Vehicle Platform (AVP) overseeing Autonomous Driving at Hyundai Motor Group and holding the title of president, and Zack Jackowski, chief technology officer at Boston Dynamics who led development of the Humanoid Robot Atlas, as presenters.
Park will make his first official public appearance since joining Hyundai Motor Group last month. As questions mount over whether an edge can be gained in the intensifying electrification and Autonomous Driving race led by Tesla, Hyundai Motor drew added attention by recruiting Park, who previously worked at Tesla and Nvidia. There is interest in whether the CEO Investor Day will reveal plans for leveraging Hyundai Motor's in-development Atria AI or Nvidia's Autonomous Driving platform.
There is also interest in whether follow-up plans for Atlas, first unveiled at CES 2026, the world's largest IT and home appliance show held in Las Vegas in January, will be announced. This comes as Boston Dynamics' head of development is appearing in Korea. Hyundai Motor Group took part in the "Asia Conference" hosted by Korea Investment & Securities Co. in Hong Kong on the 23rd–24th of last month and briefed investors on the direction for Atlas commercialization.