New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Samsung formed a permanent AX/PI team on September 1 inside its semiconductor division to build robots for fab maintenance. The first job category named: contractors and on-site engineers.
Robotics Samsung folded its scattered robotics teams into one $13B division on July 21. The first factories it plans to automate are its own.
Robotics David Park has folded napkins at Lotte Hotel Seoul for nine years. Once a month now, RLWRLD straps body cameras to his head, chest, and hands, records finger angles and force, and feeds the data into the AI brain of the humanoid that's supposed to replace him by 2028. The same data pipeline runs at CJ Logistics warehouses and Lawson stores in Japan. The Korean government is bankrolling a $33M parallel database of 「master technicians.」