HD Hyundai Robotics

Korean force and tactile sensor maker AIDIN Robotics said it raised KRW 16 billion in strategic investment from HD Hyundai Robotics and Samsung Venture Investment, announced on Sept 11. HD Hyundai Robotics said in a press release that its share was KRW 13 billion and that the two companies will co-develop a five-fingered hand for shipbuilding and heavy industry, later to be fitted to the humanoid it is developing, plus force-controlled grinding and polishing robots for hull work.

HD Hyundai Robotics said in a press release on July 1 that it has launched the HDC series of collaborative robots in three models, the HDC 50-17, HDC 35-18 and HDC 25-18, with payloads of 25, 35 and 50 kg. The company describes them as hybrids that pair cobot safety with industrial-robot performance: top speed is 5.9 m/s and reach up to 1,880 mm, and the target jobs are palletising, machine tending and handling of large boxes and heavy workpieces in automotive, battery and logistics plants where cobots have so far seen little use. For safety the arms use radar sensing, which the company calls a world first for this function, to track workers and surroundings and switch on their own between a high-speed mode and a safe mode, with the in-house SafeSpace 2.0 control software monitoring the robot's state. The launch builds on the Hi7 controller the Daegu-based maker released in 2025, the first to tie radar into collision prevention. MEKAWIRE's last story on HD Hyundai Robotics was its investment in robot-hand maker AIDIN Robotics in September; the HDC line pits it directly against Doosan Robotics, which in October won KRW 98.9 billion of national physical-AI cobot projects, and against Universal Robots and FANUC at the 25 to 50 kg end of the market.