- Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotic LAB broadcasts on-device AI chip for robots’ “Edge Mind” using its proprietary software program, to be produced by DEEPX beneath a three-year partnership
- Integration of Robotics LAB’s software program capabilities and DEEPX’s semiconductor experience focusing on market management
- “Robotization of House” options to be deployed throughout factories, buildings, logistics, and mobility sectors
- Group goals to advance social worth by way of superior robotics and bodily AI programs, addressing labor shortages and industrial challenges
Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotics LAB revealed a pivotal accomplishment in bodily synthetic intelligence[1] (AI) expertise on the inaugural CES Foundry 2026, showcasing the outcomes of its strategic three-year partnership with AI semiconductor specialist DEEPX. The announcement marks the beginning of mass manufacturing for an “edge mind” on-device AI[2] chip, co-developed by the Robotics LAB and DEEPX, with DEEPX producing the chip that integrates the Robotics LAB’s proprietary software program. This collaboration is vital for empowering robots to behave autonomously with out exterior connectivity.
As a part of the newly established CES Foundry — a devoted exhibition at CES 2026 spotlighting improvements in AI, blockchain, and quantum applied sciences — the Group’s milestone contribution exemplifies how these groundbreaking developments intersect with real-world purposes.
“Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotics LAB is not only centered on constructing robots however on making a sustainable robotics ecosystem. Our purpose is to ship actual worth on the ultimate touchpoint of the Bodily AI pipeline, the place customers instantly work together with the expertise, and to make environment friendly, good, and low-power robots accessible to a wider viewers.” – Dong Jin Hyun, Vice President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotics LAB.
What Is the “Edge Mind” On-Gadget AI chip?
Following three years of collaboration with DEEPX initiated by a 2023 memorandum of understanding (MOU), the 2 firms co-developed the AI chip, with the Robotics LAB designing the management software program utilized to the chip and DEEPX main its manufacturing.
The ultra-low energy chip consumes lower than 5 watts of energy throughout operation and serves as an “edge AI[3] mind”, enabling robots to acknowledge their environment in actual time and make autonomous choices and controls with out cloud or community connectivity. This core expertise for bodily AI implementation supplies the inspiration for robots to function reliably in on a regular basis life and industrial settings.
This expertise has already been built-in into the Robotics LAB’s applied sciences, together with Facey, a cutting-edge facial recognition expertise presently beneath improvement, and DAL-e Supply, a sophisticated supply robotic presently within the demonstration and validation section. Going ahead, it is going to be utilized sequentially to the Robotics LAB’s AI safety options and next-generation cellular robots.
How Does This Improvement Align with the Group’s Robotics Imaginative and prescient?
The long run roadmap of the Group’s Robotics LAB focuses on going past particular person robotic merchandise to offering “Robotics Complete Answer (RTS),” integrating {hardware} and software program. The event of the on-device AI chip exemplifies this method, because it merges the Robotics LAB’s management software program experience with DEEPX’s AI semiconductor capabilities.
This collaboration has additionally enabled the Group to safe optimized options prematurely for future mass-produced robots, whereas concurrently enhancing flexibility and stability inside its provide chain. Making certain such robots can function successfully in real-world environments is essential to addressing societal challenges resembling growing old populations, industrial security issues, and labor shortages. To this finish, the Group anticipates that the on-device AI chip developed by way of this initiative will allow the institution of steady bodily AI infrastructure to assist fight such challenges.
Leveraging a long time of expertise in automotive worth chains, the Group is devoted to reaching the steady mass manufacturing of robots whereas strengthening partnerships with the home battery business. Moreover, by increasing industrial purposes resembling pilot tasks at airports and hospitals, the Group is striving to broaden the home robotics ecosystem.
Unlocking Subsequent-Era Robotics By way of Partnerships
Current developments supported by companions additional spotlight the Group’s management in robotics. In December 2025, the Group launched MobED (Cell Eccentric Droid), its autonomous cellular robotic platform, at iREX. This groundbreaking platform is the primary autonomous driving robotic platform ready for mass manufacturing within the international automotive sector and acquired the celebrated Better of Innovation Award in Robotics at CES 2026.
The newest partnership with DEEPX underscores the Group’s dedication to strengthening its optimized RTS by way of early validation, advancing convergence applied sciences whereas reinforcing a steady provide chain.
