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MEKAWIRE has published 33 stories about Hyundai Motor Group since Dec 31, 2024; the latest is from Oct 16, 2026.

Data as of Oct 16, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Dec 31, 2024

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Oct 16, 2026

Stories about Hyundai Motor Group

Who runs Boston Dynamics? Rohit Prasad, the former Amazon Alexa and Nova chief, and why Hyundai picked an AI executive
Date
Oct 16, 2026
Type
Analysis
Kia starts Korea's first remote-driving car-sharing pilot in Pangyo, sending driverless PV5 vans to office workers
Date
Oct 15, 2026
Type
Product
Hyundai Motor takes vice-chair seat and Qualcomm joins board of Korea's AI and robot industry association ahead of RoboWorld
Date
Oct 15, 2026
Type
Industry
Hyundai Mobis takes its partner-scouting day to Shanghai for the first time, hunting Chinese robotics and physical-AI suppliers
Date
Oct 15, 2026
Type
Business
Korea clears 20 Robros humanoids to work beside people, and the fence rule it lifts is the bottleneck Figure, Atlas and UBTech face too
Date
Oct 14, 2026
Type
Analysis
Hyundai Motor and Kia take strategic stake in VAST Data after years running self-driving and robot AI on its platform
Date
Oct 13, 2026
Type
Business
Hanyang and Hyundai-Kia Robotics Lab steer the X-ble MEX exoskeleton with brainwaves and a wink, hitting 95% command accuracy
Date
Oct 8, 2026
Type
Research
ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Product
Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Type
Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
Date
Sep 14, 2026
Type
Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027
Date
Aug 14, 2026
Type
Partnership
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion
Date
Jul 22, 2026
Type
Business
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Korea makes physical AI one of three national mega projects, aiming for global top three in AI robots by 2030
Date
Jun 29, 2026
Type
Policy
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
M&A
BMW brings a humanoid into German car production for the first time, putting Hexagon's AEON on battery work in Leipzig
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Partnership
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot
Date
Feb 19, 2026
Type
Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics
Date
Jan 7, 2026
Type
Partnership
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut
Date
Jan 4, 2026
Type
Product
Hyundai Motor Group pledges KRW125.2 trillion in Korea to 2030, adding a robot foundry and a physical AI test center
Date
Nov 16, 2025
Type
Business
Korea lines up more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs as Hyundai, Samsung and SK aim the compute at robots and factories
Date
Oct 31, 2025
Type
Partnership
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA
Date
Oct 8, 2025
Type
M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
Hyundai pledges US$21 billion for America and puts Boston Dynamics in a US$6.3 billion future-industries bucket
Date
Mar 24, 2025
Type
Business
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO
Date
Dec 31, 2024
Type
M&A

Headline	Date	Type
Who runs Boston Dynamics? Rohit Prasad, the former Amazon Alexa and Nova chief, and why Hyundai picked an AI executive	Oct 16, 2026	Analysis
Kia starts Korea's first remote-driving car-sharing pilot in Pangyo, sending driverless PV5 vans to office workers	Oct 15, 2026	Product
Hyundai Motor takes vice-chair seat and Qualcomm joins board of Korea's AI and robot industry association ahead of RoboWorld	Oct 15, 2026	Industry
Hyundai Mobis takes its partner-scouting day to Shanghai for the first time, hunting Chinese robotics and physical-AI suppliers	Oct 15, 2026	Business
Korea clears 20 Robros humanoids to work beside people, and the fence rule it lifts is the bottleneck Figure, Atlas and UBTech face too	Oct 14, 2026	Analysis
Hyundai Motor and Kia take strategic stake in VAST Data after years running self-driving and robot AI on its platform	Oct 13, 2026	Business
Hanyang and Hyundai-Kia Robotics Lab steer the X-ble MEX exoskeleton with brainwaves and a wink, hitting 95% command accuracy	Oct 8, 2026	Research
ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create	Oct 1, 2026	Product
Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids	Sep 21, 2026	Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering	Sep 14, 2026	Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027	Aug 14, 2026	Partnership
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion	Jul 22, 2026	Business
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Korea makes physical AI one of three national mega projects, aiming for global top three in AI robots by 2030	Jun 29, 2026	Policy
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body	Mar 11, 2026	M&A
BMW brings a humanoid into German car production for the first time, putting Hexagon's AEON on battery work in Leipzig	Feb 27, 2026	Partnership
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot	Feb 19, 2026	Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Hyundai Mobis wins first robotics customer as Atlas actuator supplier to Boston Dynamics	Jan 7, 2026	Partnership
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028	Jan 5, 2026	Product
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut	Jan 4, 2026	Product
Hyundai Motor Group pledges KRW125.2 trillion in Korea to 2030, adding a robot foundry and a physical AI test center	Nov 16, 2025	Business
Korea lines up more than 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs as Hyundai, Samsung and SK aim the compute at robots and factories	Oct 31, 2025	Partnership
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA	Oct 8, 2025	M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
Hyundai pledges US$21 billion for America and puts Boston Dynamics in a US$6.3 billion future-industries bucket	Mar 24, 2025	Business
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO	Dec 31, 2024	M&A

Data as of Oct 16, 2026

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