With global demand for industrial and humanoid robots accelerating, Taiwan’s machinery industry is moving to carve out a role in the evolving supply chain. Hiwin has teamed up with a US logistics startup to co-develop AI-driven robots for material handling. Meanwhile, international giants such as Tesla, Figure AI, Apptronik, BYD, and XPeng are rapidly advancing humanoid robotics. However, Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) concedes the nation still lags in robotics, especially in systems integration.