Samsung's first wearable robot, Bot Fit, has been developed and is expected to be launched in Q3

According to THE CHOSUN Daily, Samsung has completed the development and mass production of Bot Fit, and the company plans to launch its first wearable assistive robot in the third quarter of this year.

IT Home learned from the report that Bot Fit is designed to help individuals with limited mobility and enhance physical activity. Samsung has been providing Bot Fit prototypes to elderly communities since the end of last year and plans to enter the B2C market within the year.

In order to strengthen its robotics business, Samsung has reportedly reorganized its organization by disbanding the robotics business team in the Device Experience Division 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 Bot Fit and is preparing for the next step. This reorganization is aimed at strengthening the robotics business."

Samsung also appointed Cho Hye-kyung, a robotics expert and professor of applied artificial intelligence at Hansung University, as a new external director. Last year, Samsung Research Institute hired former Nvidia engineer Kwon Jung-hyun as an executive, further strengthening its robotics expertise.

The report also revealed that Samsung is also developing the next generation of humanoid robots, a project that has attracted the keen interest of Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong.

Samsung originally planned to release the GEMS Hip assistant robot in limited quantities in December 2022 and start mass production in the second half of 2022, but this plan did not materialize. In November 2023, Samsung renamed it Bot Fit.

In addition, another Korean company, LG Electronics, will showcase its service robot CLOi, which uses Google's generative AI model Gemini, at the Google Cloud Summit on June 27. The two companies have been working together since last year and may go public in the second half of this year.