Oh Jun-ho, Director General of the Future Robotics Task Force at Samsung Electronics, stressed on the 30th that "Samsung Electronics will become a major player in the global robot ecosystem."
Oh, the Director General, said this in a keynote speech at the 2025 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025) held at Coex in Gangnam District, Seoul, saying, "Samsung has a unique ecosystem that simultaneously serves as a technology supplier and a user."
In a presentation themed "the golden age of humanoid robots," he introduced Samsung Electronics' current status and strategy in the robotics business. Oh, the Director General, said, "We are experimenting with various forms—high-speed, high-strength, and human-friendly—to find the type and size of humanoids suitable for the market," adding, "For precision manipulation hands, we are studying various mechanisms such as linkage, cable, and drag types, and we plan to develop an in-house high degrees-of-freedom (high DOF) hand."
Oh, the Director General, cited a diverse industrial portfolio and a global supply chain as strengths of Samsung's robotics business. He emphasized, "Samsung is involved in many fields, including home appliances, semiconductors, chemicals, bio, logistics, and shipbuilding, forming a vertical ecosystem," and "we can expand the robotics business based on our global distribution network and manufacturing capabilities." He added, "Morgan Stanley assessed Samsung as a strong candidate to play a leading role in the global robotics market."
Samsung brought Rainbow Robotics, a robot platform specialist, in as a subsidiary at the end of last year and launched the Future Robotics Task Force, a unit reporting directly to the CEO. Then in Aug. this year, it established InnoX Lab, a companywide artificial intelligence (AI) organization, and is pursuing projects such as digital twins, logistics AI, and the development of core humanoid technologies.
Oh, the Director General, is a robotics engineer who developed HUBO, Korea's first bipedal robot. He is an honorary professor at KAIST and a founding member of Rainbow Robotics. Meeting with reporters, he said, "Humanoid robots will first be deployed on manufacturing floors and then expand into service areas," adding, "Samsung and Rainbow Robotics are currently operated independently, but synergies will emerge going forward."