Samsung Completes BotFit Development, Plans to Launch in Q3
TapTechNews May 26th news, according to THECHOSUNDaily report, Samsung has completed the development and mass production of BotFit, and the company plans to launch its first wearable assistive robot in the third quarter of this year.
TapTechNews learned from the report that BotFit is designed to help individuals with limited mobility and enhance physical activities. Since the end of last year, Samsung has been providing BotFit prototypes to senior communities and plans to enter the B2C market within the year.
The report said that in order to strengthen its robot business, Samsung reorganized its organization by dissolving the robot business team of the Device Experience Department and reallocating R & D personnel under the leadership of the chief technology officer. A Samsung representative explained: The R & D team has completed the development of BotFit and is preparing for the next step. This reorganization is aimed at strengthening the robot business.
In addition, Samsung also appointed Cho Hye-kyung, a robot expert and applied artificial intelligence professor at Hanseong University, as a new external director. Last year, the Samsung Research Institute hired former NVIDIA engineer Kwon Jung-hyun as an executive to further enhance its robot expertise.
The report also revealed that Samsung is still developing the next-generation humanoid robot, and this project has received strong interest from Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong.
Samsung was originally scheduled to release the GEMSHip assistive robot in limited quantities in December 2022 and start mass production in the second half of 2022, however, this plan did not come true. In November 2023, Samsung renamed it BotFit.
In addition, another Korean enterprise LG Electronics will showcase its service robot CLOi at the Google Cloud Summit on June 27th, which uses Google's generative AI model Gemini. The two companies have been cooperating since last year and may go public in the second half of this year.