October 21, 2026 TMT Morning Voice Broadcast: Samsung Develops 24-Hour Bipedal Humanoid Robot; MIIT Advances Next-Generation Intelligent Manufacturing

Samsung Electronics' RX Business Promotion Office is validating the performance of a bipedal humanoid robot capable of operating 24 hours a day at industrial sites at its Seoul R&D Campus; the robot performs repetitive tasks such as carrying goods in manufacturing and logistics settings and learns about its surrounding environment and work methods. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is researching and drafting next-generation intelligent manufacturing policy measures, focusing on four areas: tiered cultivation of smart factories, development of intelligent industrial machine tools and intelligent robots, breakthroughs in industrial vertical-domain large models, and deepening international cooperation in intelligent manufacturing. Unitree Robotics announced a notice cautioning that the humanoid robot industry is still in an early commercialization stage and that there is a risk of valuation regression.