Samsung's Lee Jae-yong marks four years by pushing robot commercialization
From the Robots digest for Oct 27, 2026
What happened: Chosun Biz reports on October 27 that Samsung's Lee Jae-yong marked four years by pushing the company's robot commercialization in Korea, with a visit to a Seoul R&D hub to review the robotics work.
What's genuinely new: A chairman-level layer dated October 27 in the Samsung robotics program — the story so far has run through the RX division's hardware-software co-design org chart, the general-purpose humanoid prototype pitched for CES 2027 and the Rainbow Robotics industrial RB-Y2 — and now the company's top figure is himself framed as pressing commercialization, with the Seoul R&D visit as the piece's peg.
Watch: Whether the chairman-level push translates into the dated milestones already followed — the CES 2027 prototype target and the RB-Y2's appearance at Robotworld 2026, which runs November 4–7 at KINTEX in Goyang, South Korea.
Sources Chosun Biz