“Samsung Invests $181M, Becomes Top Shareholder of Robotics”
Samsung Electronics claims it has become the biggest shareholder in South Korea’s robotics company, Rainbow Robotics, by increasing its share to 35% from the previous 14.7%, paid at the cost of KRW 267 billion, around $181 billion.
The electronics giant contracted Rainbow Robotics on February 2025 with the stake acquired primarily to enrich its robotics department and speed up humanoid robot development. The company pays KRW 86.8 billion for 14.7 percent share in 2023. The joint company is also expected to be a Samsung subsidiary.
The other resolution includes the founding of a Future Robotics Office to be placed directly reporting to the chief executive officer. This will also extend to Rainbow Robotics markets abroad through Samsung’s expanse.
Founded in 2011 by the KAIST Center within which the investigation is taking place, the rainbow has dual-arm mobile manipulators and autonomous mobile robots for the manufacturing and logistics environment. It has a staff of 86.
Dr. Jun-ho Oh, a founding member of Rainbow and former largest shareholder in the robotics company prior to the deal, will continue on to lead new efforts called the Future Robotics Office at Samsung and serve as an advisor.
Samsung thus joins everyone else already scrambling over the humanoid robot development race. Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to use their tech for a humanoid robot, and Tesla brought to fore an exhibit this year, its own take on the robots dubbed Optimus. Nvidia, too, plans to release a line of compact computers for humanoid robots next year-it named the new line Jetson Thor.
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