#factory-automation · How Robots Are Reshaping Work

Samsung SDS entered the robot transformation business on September 8 with a 2027 orchestration platform. The load-bearing number is 430: the manufacturing clients already on its books.

A KOSDAQ disclosure on September 7 does what almost no automation contract does: it names the work. Busbar feeding, heat-staking, laser welding, electrical test, weld vision inspection, chained into one line.

Lumos Robotics launched the MOS 2 on September 1. The load-bearing number is not the payload. It is the 1,000 failure-free hours the previous model logged on a live PLC line at Mitsubishi Electric's Changshu plant, after which Mitsubishi led the funding round.

Universal Robots' parent filed patent infringement against JAKA's German subsidiary at the UPC's Copenhagen division on August 27, targeting a broad range of cobot models sold in the EU. Four months ago the same playbook won an injunction in Hamburg.

A CAICT report surfaced on August 21 puts more than 70 embodied-AI training grounds in operation across China by the end of June, with 46 more under construction or planned. Industrial manufacturing appears in 86% of them.

Xiaomi's Q2 results on August 18 listed three named workstations in its own EV plant and the humanoid's success rate at each. On the same call, president Lu Weibing said the robot will not be sold as a standalone product.

LG and NVIDIA signed an MOU at NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters on August 13. The humanoid got the headline. The wheeled CLOiD got the deployment date, and it lands in a plant already running 200 mobile robots.

The New York Times walked BMW's Spartanburg plant and Hyundai's Georgia plant on August 11. The robots that actually work in those factories have wheels. The humanoids are doing kitting.

Smart Analytics Global put out first-half humanoid shipment data on August 10: 19,100 units globally, up 272%, with AgiBot passing Unitree at 8,400 units. The share number traveled. The mix number is the one that changes work.

Reimagine Robotics emerged from stealth on August 3, founded by former DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, with robots workers train by demonstration.

The 25th IEEE humanoid-robotics conference chose 'Humanoids and the Future of Work' as its theme — the field's own admission the machines are now on the clock.

Samsung folded its scattered robotics teams into one $13B division on July 21. The first factories it plans to automate are its own.