Despite market anticipation for the deployment of humanoid robots in home applications, significant safety risks still remain. Because of this, Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of US-based humanoid robot startup Agility Robotics, estimates that it will take at least another 10 years before humanoid robots can be safely deployed in homes.

South Korea’s largest automotive parts manufacturer Hyundai Mobis is grappling with consecutive strikes at its production subsidiaries, forcing partial shutdowns at Hyundai Motor and Kia factories that rely on these components. After being hit by tariffs and the detention of Korean workers in the US, the automotive component industry now faces strikes that are using production lines as bargaining chips, plunging the automotive industry into a threefold crisis.

South Korean startup HyperAccel—an IC design firm focusing on AI semiconductors for large language models (LLM)—will launch a language processing unit (LPU) AI chip using Samsung Electronics’ 4nm process in 2026.

As fighter jets patrol the skies and geopolitical tensions rise worldwide, a new arms race is taking place inside Taiwan’s leading technology sector. The island’s industrial PC makers—known for building ultra-durable computers used in factories and vehicles—are now shifting their focus to supply the digital backbone for the next generation of smart warfare, including AI-powered drones and unmanned naval ships.