Humanoid Alice Targets Productivity Gains by Replacing Human Tasks at KIW 2026

Arobot CEO Yoonseol Eom introduced the humanoid robot Alice on May 15, 2026, at Korea Investment Week (KIW) 2026 held at The Shilla Seoul in Jangchung-dong. He said the goal of humanoids is not to compete with automated machines, but to replace the humans who operate machines and exceed human productivity. Arobot spun off in 2018 from Professor Han Jae-kwon’s robotics lab at Hanyang University and has 20 years of humanoid development know-how. The company internalized actuators, which account for 60% of robot costs, and adopted vision-only learning AI to improve price competitiveness. It targets a sales price of $47,000, about 70 million won. Alice M for flat-floor manufacturing sites is under testing for 2028 commercialization, while shipyard deployment is targeted for 2030. Source: hankyung.com