Samsung SDS Holds “RX ART 2026,” Accelerating Physical AI Commercialization
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Samsung SDS held “RX ART (Robotics Transformation Advancing Robotics Together) 2026” from the 31st of last month to the 1st of this month, local time, in Mountain View, California.
Samsung affiliates' executives and leaders in charge of robotics, along with global physical AI companies, took part in the event to discuss robotics use cases and ways to cooperate.
Samsung SDS verified robot applications tailored to each affiliate's work environment and process characteristics, and plans to expand proven cases to other processes and affiliates.
Samsung SDS held “RX ART (Robotics Transformation Advancing Robotics Together) 2026” from the 31st of last month to the 1st of this month, local time, in Mountain View, California. Major Samsung affiliates and global physical AI companies took part in the event, where they shared results from verifying robotics use cases and discussed ways to cooperate.
Samsung SDS is using industrial sites across different Samsung affiliates, from electronic component manufacturing to shipbuilding and plant operations, as joint verification grounds for physical AI robots. This strategy is based on real-work validation rather than limited technology demonstrations. The company aims to secure real-world training data, verify field applicability, and then spread use cases with proven results across affiliates.
Samsung SDS announced the event on the 3rd. The event, titled “RX ART (Robotics Transformation Advancing Robotics Together) 2026,” was held from the 31st of last month to the 1st of this month, local time, in Mountain View, California. Executives and leaders in charge of robotics at major Samsung affiliates attended, and they discussed robotics use cases at industrial sites and ways to cooperate among affiliates.
Samsung SDS and its affiliates prevalidated jointly identified robotics use cases, and the verification was carried out by combining technologies from global physical AI companies. They shared the results of that verification.
The key theme of this event was moving away from the one-size-fits-all deployment of a single general-purpose robot. Instead, it emphasized verifying technologies by task environment and process characteristics and reflecting site-specific requirements, while discussing plans to deploy separate robotics and AI technologies for repetitive manual work in factories, rugged outdoor tasks, and precision equipment operation.
Samsung SDS implemented a general-purpose robot from Walden Robotics at Samsung Electro-Mechanics and SEMES manufacturing sites to verify whether robots could replace repetitive manual work involving parts handling and consumables replacement that had previously been done by people. In the process, the company highlighted its strategic investment in Walden Robotics in June, as well as the fact that Walden Robotics is a full-stack physical AI company founded by researchers from the Toyota Research Institute. Walden Robotics robots are also being used on production lines at Toyota's North American plants, where they perform actual processes such as heavy-duty work.
Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung E&A also applied RoboForce technology at shipbuilding and plant sites. The technology, based on physical AI and “Robo-Labor,” was intended to assess the feasibility of automating heavy-duty work in irregular, rugged outdoor environments that differ from indoor factories. RoboForce can operate in indoor and harsh outdoor industrial sites, and it has a robot foundation model for heavy-duty work and a modular AI robotics platform.
Samsung SDS focused on manufacturing and equipment environments at Samsung Display, as well as high-precision requirements, and used a robotics startup's Dexterous Manipulation AI technology to verify the feasibility of robotics automation in complex and delicate processes.
However, success in demonstrations in controlled industrial robot environments is separate from the difficulty of applying them on actual sites, and site application variables include differences in work targets, equipment layouts, and safety conditions. Accordingly, Samsung SDS selected specific tasks at its affiliates as verification projects, saying the purpose of selecting those tasks was to narrow the gap between technology and the field.
Through this process, the company was able to secure site data for robot AI training during actual work execution, and Samsung SDS precisely assessed robot performance and applicability based on task-specific data. It also refined adoption plans suited to each site.
Samsung SDS plans to turn the technical possibilities confirmed at this event into on-site proof-of-concept projects at its affiliates. It also intends to expand use cases whose results are validated through those proofs of concept to other processes and affiliates, with the goal of driving meaningful change in industrial sites. Based on this, Samsung SDS plans to move forward in earnest with “Robot Transformation (RX).”
Ahn Dae-jung, vice president in charge of the Digital Factory division at Samsung SDS, said this RX ART was a place where Samsung affiliates with different manufacturing sites could come together to share technical experiences and concerns. He added that the company will continue expanding strategic cooperation with global physical AI robotics companies and will actively support the Samsung affiliates' push for manufacturing RX.
Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241369
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