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Sustainability Times
18-07-2025
- Business
- Sustainability Times
'They Weld Better Than Humans': Hyundai Stuns Industry by Deploying German Humanoid Robots in Shipyard for Precision Welding Tasks
IN A NUTSHELL 🤖 Neura Robotics partners with Hyundai subsidiaries to introduce intelligent humanoid and quadruped robots in shipbuilding. partners with Hyundai subsidiaries to introduce intelligent humanoid and quadruped robots in shipbuilding. 🔧 The 4NE1 robot is designed for complex tasks, leveraging cognitive capabilities and adaptive learning to enhance operational efficiency. is designed for complex tasks, leveraging cognitive capabilities and adaptive learning to enhance operational efficiency. 🔍 The collaboration aims to address a growing shortage of skilled labor by validating robotic solutions under real-world industrial conditions. 🚀 A partnership with Persona AI focuses on deploying humanoid welding robots by 2027, advancing the vision of smart shipyards. Innovation in the shipbuilding industry is taking a remarkable turn as humanoid and quadruped robots are being tested in real-world conditions. The collaboration between Neura Robotics and Hyundai's subsidiaries marks a significant shift towards automation in one of the world's most challenging industries. This partnership aims to revolutionize the shipyard environment by enhancing safety, efficiency, and productivity through intelligent robotics. With the introduction of Neura's 4NE1 humanoid robots, the industry is poised to witness a transformation that could redefine traditional shipbuilding practices. Revolutionizing Shipbuilding with Robotics The shipbuilding industry stands on the brink of a technological revolution as Neura Robotics introduces its advanced humanoid platform, the 4NE1, into the fray. This strategic collaboration with HD Hyundai Samho and HD Hyundai Robotics is designed to integrate intelligent robots into the shipyard environment, thereby improving operational efficiency and productivity. The 4NE1 robot, known for its cognitive capabilities and adaptive learning, is set to tackle complex tasks traditionally handled by human workers. HD Hyundai Samho provides the ideal testing ground for these humanoid robots, offering hands-on, real-world conditions to assess their practicality and performance. Meanwhile, HD Hyundai Robotics lends its technical expertise in welding automation, contributing path-learning data and overseeing performance validation. This partnership is a testament to the growing interest in applying robotics to heavy industries, reducing manual labor and enhancing safety protocols. It's a progressive step aimed at streamlining complex manufacturing processes within global shipyards. 'US Navy Breaks the Silence': World's First Reusable Underwater Spy Robot Deployed on Nuclear Submarine Building the Smart Shipyard The vision of a smart shipyard is becoming a reality as US robotics firm Persona AI partners with South Korean companies to develop humanoid robots for shipbuilding tasks. This collaboration focuses on enhancing productivity, reducing worker fatigue, and improving safety in industrial environments. By 2027, the partnership aims to deploy humanoid welding robots in shipyards, marking a major step toward shipyard automation. The robots are specifically designed to withstand the harsh and complex conditions of shipbuilding yards, where they will perform advanced welding tasks traditionally labor-intensive and high-risk. The development of rugged hardware and AI-based control systems is central to this initiative, enabling precise, autonomous welding. Each partner plays a crucial role: the robotics firm leads the development of hardware and control systems, Vazil designs specialized welding equipment, and HD KSOE manages live deployment and field engineering support. This ambitious project signifies a pivotal move towards creating shipyards where robots and human workers collaborate seamlessly. 'Robot Did the Surgery': U.S. Doctors Complete First-Ever Heart Transplant Without Opening the Chest Collaborative Expertise and Innovation The partnership between Neura Robotics and Hyundai's subsidiaries highlights the importance of collaborative expertise in advancing industrial automation. By pooling resources and knowledge, these companies aim to validate the potential of humanoid and quadruped robots in increasing efficiency and safety. The initiative addresses a growing shortage of skilled labor in the industry, offering a practical solution through automation. At the Automatica trade fair in Munich, the partnership was formally announced, showcasing the commitment to revolutionizing shipbuilding. By combining the expertise of all three partners, the project aims to test robotic solutions under demanding industrial conditions, ensuring they meet the rigorous requirements of shipbuilding operations. The outcome could significantly enhance safety protocols and streamline complex manufacturing processes, paving the way for more advanced automated systems in shipyards worldwide. 'They Gave the Drone an Elephant Trunk': Flexible Robot Arm Grabs, Bends, and Slips Into Tightest Spaces With Shocking Precision The Future of Shipyard Automation The future of shipyard automation is promising, with significant advancements on the horizon. The partnership with Persona AI aims to develop humanoid robots capable of performing precise and autonomous welding tasks. With a prototype expected by the end of 2026 and full commercial deployment the following year, the project represents a major step toward building smart shipyards. These efforts highlight the potential of robotics to transform the shipbuilding industry, offering safer and more efficient alternatives to traditional practices. By embracing innovation and collaboration, the industry is poised for a new era of productivity and safety. As we look to the future, how will these technological advancements further reshape the shipbuilding landscape? This article is based on verified sources and supported by editorial technologies. Did you like it? 4.5/5 (23)
Forbes
27-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
This Humanoid Robot Can Lift 220 Pounds But Has Super-Sensitive Skin
Neura Robotics' CEO David Reger with the third-generation 4NE-1 humanoid robot Neura Robotics Neura Robotics officially unveiled the third generation of its 4NE-1 humanoid robot this week, along with a household robot named MiPa, an open robotics ecosystem called the Neuraverse, and a vision for an app store for robots. The 4NE-1 humanoid robot is powerful but also sensitive: able to lift more than any other humanoid robot I've seen, but also able to sense human touch. Additionally, Neura said it plans to ship 5,000,000 robots of varying kinds by 2030–significantly more than the 100,000 Figure plans to ship –and that the first shipping 4NE-1 humanoid robots would be delivered this year. 'We are excited to launch a series of robots,' CEO David Reger told me last week on the TechFirst podcast. 'There is also a household device MiPa coming, and also new other industrial robot types, but in the end I think the core is actually the Neuraverse platform, which is combining all of this on one platform and makes it actually scalable and reachable to reach the five million humanoid robots on this planet.' The big news on the hardware side is a full launch of 4NE-1, which Reger says is now production ready. This is a beast of a humanoid robot, with 100kg or 220-pound lift capacity with its legs, and 10kg or 22 pounds with its hands. After teasing this launch in March , Neura delivered. As specced by the company, 4NE-1 is a technological marvel, with seven cameras, LIDAR, and much more. It will be capable of doing a backflip, Reger says, which not only summons up visions of Boston Dynamics' humanoid robots, but also speaks to speed coupled with power. 4NE-1 is one of the first humanoid robots that will have skin. While Neura isn't revealing too many details about the skin on 4NE-1, based on what he did say, it sounds like a capacitive touch sensor capability like that on your smartphone's screen. It can sense near touch, actual touch, and the strength or power of that touch. Interestingly, it will be applied via a spray-on process, and the result won't be visually distinguishable from the rest of the robot. And while it won't cover the whole robot, it likely will be on the hands, arms, and torso. Why put skin on a robot? It's critical for how Neura wants humanoid robots to interact with and work with humans safely in close quarters. 'The skin is actually … of our biggest gifts,' Reger says. "Having the ability to have the feeling of touch gives you a complete different way of how humans interact with each other.' 4NE-1's skin will sense proximity before actual touch, he added, making interactions safer, more precise, and emotionally intelligent. While the hardware news is always the headline-grabber, probably the more important news is the backend technology. That includes Neura's Omnisensor technology, which fuses location and spatial awareness from seven cameras, a LIDAR system, and even a microphone to help each 4NE-1 unit know where it is, proximity to objects and humans, and how to get what it needs while avoiding what it should not hit. Neura Robotics' third-generation 4NE-1 humanoid robot Neura Robotics Integrating all that data will be some fairly serious onboard technology. Reger didn't say what kind of CPUs or GPUs 4NE-1 will include, but it is worth noting that Nvidia is a technology partner of Neura Robotics. Neura is also partnering with Nvidia on 'robot gyms' where robots learn tasks and develop abilities. Another major piece of new technology supporting Neura's robotic roll-out is the 'Neuraverse.' Neuraverse is an operating system, a development platform for robotics, and an app store for skills, abilities, and even microservices that anyone can come to, build capabilities, and release them for sale. What one robot learns, all others can know instantly. Developers and companies employing humanoid robots can buy, sell, or offer for free abilities like welding specific parts or building a specific product. 'We are fundamentally changing how people interact with machines,' says Reger. "Our Neuraverse is the product that connects everything: the operating system of the robotics era." MiPa is a wheeled personal assistant robot John Koetsier Finally, Neura also unveiled MiPa, a wheeled robot that will be more affordable for the home market. While anyone can use it, one specific designed use case is assisting the elderly with being able to remain in their own homes and age in place, Reger says. Neura calls MiPa 'the world's first cognitive household and service robot suitable for real everyday use.' MiPa will be able to vacuum, unload dishwashers, clean up rooms, and monitor health signs. In fact, Neura says, MiPa supports IoT and health device standards and can connect with wearables to collect data, analyze sleep, and more. As all of Neura's other robots, MiPa will be connected to the Neuraverse, meaning it can learn new skills instantly from other robots and apply them locally. Neura is entering an increasingly crowded humanoid robot market that has yet to fully deliver on its promise of an always-on, cheap, capable, and reliable workforce, but 4NE-1 is a compelling entrant. I'm not certain that 4NE-1 delivers on the company's vision of having the most capable humanoid on the planet, but it's a contender. If humanoid robots is our version of the space race, as Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas told me recently, Neura Robotics is Europe's leading challenger. What we haven't seen yet is video on how 4NE-1 walks and moves, which will be critical for starting to understand how capable this robot is in a factory or warehouse.
