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.

Foxconn announced a transformative partnership with US chip giant Nvidia to build a next-generation “AI Factory” supercomputing center in Taiwan. The facility will feature Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture, aiming to accelerate AI development across industry, government, and academia. As part of the deal, Foxconn’s newly formed subsidiary, Big Innovation Company, will become Taiwan’s first official Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP), further deepening the two firms’ collaboration in the AI space.

In a future increasingly shaped by machines, Elon Musk is already looking ahead. He has declared robotics the next frontier of industry, and recently approached TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei in private to evaluate the company’s ability to meet future chip demands for intelligent robots.

Computex 2025 is set to open on May 20 in Taipei, with Qualcomm and MediaTek—two longtime rivals in the mobile chip sector—unexpectedly emerging as keynote headliners at Asia’s most influential technology trade show. Their elevated status comes as traditional PC chip giants, Intel and AMD, opt to skip this year’s opening sessions, leaving a rare vacuum on the keynote stage.