South Korean firms show divergent paths to industrial humanoids

At FIX 2026 in Daegu, Tesollo unveiled its 20-DoF DG-5F-M robotic hand, AeiROBOT outlined a shipyard roadmap for its bipedal ALICE 5 through 2030, and HD Hyundai Robotics showed a stationary dual-arm prototype with 7 kg payload per arm.

• Tesollo DG-5F-M hand: 20 degrees of freedom, up to 30 N per fingertip
• AeiROBOT targets shipyard patrol and cleaning by 2028, welding in 2029
• HD Hyundai Robotics: 7 kg payload per arm, 630 mm reach, no deployment date
• HD Hyundai invested KRW13 billion in Aidin Robotics for five-finger hands