Daedong and Samsung-controlled Rainbow Robotics team up on AGROID, a two-armed farm humanoid aimed at Korea's AI greenhouses by 2028

Korean farm-machinery maker Daedong said in a press release on Aug 13 that it has signed a co-development agreement with Rainbow Robotics to commercialise AGROID, an agricultural robot that puts Rainbow's two-armed humanoid upper body on a Daedong autonomous base built for greenhouses.

A first prototype is finished and is being tested on tasks such as tomato harvesting, the company said. Daedong leads development, with its units Daedong Robotics and Daedong Agtech handling the driving platform, path planning and crop-recognition and harvest-decision AI; Rainbow Robotics supplies the harvesting arms, precision control, AI control and digital-twin links, and the two will run certification and field trials together.

AGROID grows out of the strawberry-picking robot Daedong showed at CES 2025 and is meant to swap end effectors for scouting, leaf removal, harvesting and transport; Daedong aims to deploy it as the core robot in a fourth-generation AI greenhouse planned in South Jeolla in 2028 under the national agricultural AX platform.

The deal was signed at Daedong's Seoul office by Rainbow Robotics CEO Lee Jung-ho and Daedong Robotics CEO Kang Sung-chul among others. In MEKAWIRE's records it is one of the first commercial farm applications announced for Rainbow's humanoid hardware since Samsung Electronics became its largest shareholder.