Korea’s shipbuilding industry is pushing deeper into AI-powered automation, including a “dark factory” direction where production can run with fewer people on-site.
For welding people, the interesting part is where robots are going next. Korea JoongAng Daily described HD Hyundai Mipo showing collaborative robots doing deck welding—one of the harder areas to automate because surfaces are uneven and full of obstacles—and the company expecting to lift deck block welding automation from 58.6% to around 80%.
In parallel, HD Hyundai’s robotics unit says it is working with HD Hyundai Samho to validate automation in real shipyard environments, and gCaptain reports HD Hyundai’s humanoid welding robots are being trained via motion capture and simulations, with a target for shipyard deployment by 2027.
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The Chosun Daily
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