Physical AI

SK Telecom's NUGU voice assistant thrives within its own ecosystem but struggles to compete as a genuinely open smart-home platform.

28 July 2026

Naver's Clova was among the first AI voice assistants to reach Korean households, but as rivals race ahead with generative AI, the platform risks being overtaken by the very trend it helped create.

27 July 2026

LG Electronics has launched an ambitious AI home hub that promises to unify every appliance and smart device under one conversational interface — but the baton comes at a price.

25 July 2026

Samsung's latest smartwatch forgoes dramatic reinvention in favour of careful refinement, emerging as a polished health-tracking companion for Android users.

24 July 2026

A bullish earnings surprise forecast, driven by tariff rebates and nascent AI cooling and robotics businesses, underpins a sharp upgrade to LG Electronics' valuation.

22 July 2026

Samsung Electronics' formal commitment to robotics, backed by new leadership and global research infrastructure, could revive a domestic sector that has lost more than half its market value in six months.

22 July 2026

By placing its robotics ambitions under the head of its mobile business, Samsung is signalling that the smartphone era is giving way to the age of physical AI.

21 July 2026

Samsung has formalised its robotics ambitions by establishing a standalone business unit, signalling its intent to compete directly with Tesla and Hyundai in the fast-growing humanoid robot market.

21 July 2026

A Korean brokerage sees 52% upside in motor and precision reducer maker SPG, betting on its unique position as the sole supplier of precision reducers across Rainbow Robotics' full humanoid robot line-up.

20 July 2026

By completing its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, Hyundai Motor Group has staked its claim at the centre of the global humanoid-robot industry—but turning technological prestige into profit remains an open question.

16 July 2026

South Korea's leading rolling-stock manufacturer is developing an artificial-intelligence-driven advanced driver-assistance system for trams, a move that could reshape urban transport and open new export markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

16 July 2026

South Korea's telecoms giant KT has secured a government contract to build an AI-integrated industrial network in the country's shipyards—a project that could determine whether Korea's flagship manufacturing sector keeps pace with China's advancing smart-factory ambitions.

14 July 2026

South Korea's largest mobile operator is staking its post-telecoms future on a platform to train robots, entering a crowded global race it cannot afford to lose.

13 July 2026

SK Group's AI and digital-transformation arm is pushing beyond simple automation towards fully autonomous factories, but the harder challenges of cost, workforce and data quality remain unsolved.

9 July 2026

Armed with decades of motor and actuator expertise from its appliance and automotive businesses, LG Electronics is making a bold push into humanoid and service robotics—but software gaps and fierce competition pose serious risks.

7 July 2026

Hyundai Motor Group's ₩9 trillion investment in Saemangeum — backed by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, who coined the site "AI Valley" — may finally deliver on three decades of broken promises for South Korea's most ambitious land reclamation project.

19 June 2026

The disappearance of Japanese firms from the 2026 World Cup sponsorship roster—and their replacement by South Korean, Chinese and Middle Eastern rivals—maps the seismic shift in global industrial power over the past two decades.

19 June 2026

Nvidia's chief visited South Korea not merely to secure chip supplies, but to enlist the country's robotics, AI cloud, and autonomous-driving capabilities in building the next layer of his company's global ecosystem.

14 June 2026