HD Hyundai Robotics () is a South Korean

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company founded in 2020. Its headquarters is located in

Dalseong County Dalseong County (Dalseong-gun) is a ''gun'' occupying much of south and western Daegu, South Korea. A largely rural district lying along the Nakdong River, it makes up nearly half of Daegu's total area. It is divided in half by a narrow piece o ...

, Daegu.

History

In October 1984,

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established a robot business team at

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to directly manufacture robots needed for the production of

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. It developed robots for automobile manufacturing and

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transport. In 2016, the It was upgraded from Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine Machinery Division to Hyundai Heavy Industries Robot Division, and became an independent corporation in 2020. In 2023, the company name was changed to the current name, HD Hyundai Robotics.

Product

Over the 30 years since its establishment, the company has sold approximately 52,000 industrial robots to automakers and vendors. The company mainly develop and produce multi-joint robots that can perform welding and assembly work in industrial sites. It sell approximately 4,000 industrial robots annually. In addition, 40 types of robots, including Industrial,

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and

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robots, are produced at the

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

factory where the headquarters is located. The main customers are companies in the automobile, metal/machine, electrical/electronic, and food service industries. About 90% of the company's total sales come from industrial robots such as the HS220. Since 2019, the company have been producing service robots such as serving robots, quarantine robots, and cleaning robots. The company jointly developed 'UNI', a mobile service robot equipped with voice recognition technology, with KT and installed it in hotels in

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, South Korea.

Factory

The Smart Factory, located in

, Daegu, has an area of 26,214 m². The number of robots that can be produced by the robots in the factory is approximately 10,000 units per year. In 2022, a production corporation was established in

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

, China, and annual industrial robot production began in March 2023. Annual production volume is 3,000 units.

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