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Hyundai workers in South Korea initiated a partial strike to demand job protections against planned humanoid robot deployment. The company intends to introduce humanoid robots by 2028 at its Georgia facility. The strike marks the first factory shutdown driven by concerns over humanoid robot adoption in the automotive industry.
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Munich robotics startup Microagi raised $55 million in Germany's largest seed round to develop humanoid robots trained on factory and household task data. The funding was led by Hummingbird with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine, coming 10 months after the company's founding by former Formula 1 engineers. Microagi plans to deploy humanoid robots across European manufacturing and household sectors, with the CEO predicting robots capable of performing roughly 10 routine tasks autonomously within one year.
