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Dongkun Lee, formerly of Hyundai, will oversee its strategy.
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Samsung has created a caller division called RX or Robotics eXperience for each of its robotics projects. Its strategy will beryllium headed by Dongkun Lee, who joined Samsung successful May arsenic an Executive Vice President. Before he joined Samsung, Lee led Hyundai's robotics strategy, including Boston Dynamics'. Samsung CEO TM Roh himself will oversee nan caller division.
While RX will beryllium based successful Samsung's Seoul accommodation successful South Korea, Reuters says nan institution is besides readying to build robotics investigation hubs successful nan US, China and Japan to pat into nan expertise of locals. RX's establishment signals that nan company, for illustration galore of peers successful nan tech industry, is getting superior astir moving connected projects revolving astir nan improvement of beingness AI. Hyundai recently purchased nan remainder of Boston Dynamics for nan aforesaid reason. In February, a robotics institution established by Alphabet to creation robotics for manufacturing was folded into Google. And OpenAI is moving connected a bid of devices meant to beryllium nan beingness manifestation of ChatGPT, nan first of which is believed to beryllium a speaker.
According to Korea JoongAng Daily, Samsung intends to commencement manufacturing humanoid robots sometime this year. Roh antecedently announced that nan institution will invest 19 trillion Korean won ($13 billion) to create manufacturing accommodation successful its Gumi, Korea site for nan accumulation of its humanoid robots, CNBC says.
