Robostar

Robostar is a South Korean industrial robot company based in Suwon. The site describes it as an LG Electronics group company with 25 years of robot technology behind its products. Its work is organized into robot, platform module and SaaS divisions, and it builds robots for manufacturing and semiconductor plants. The company says it focuses on AI vision and software-based control to move from simple automation toward intelligent robots.

Robots and automation systems

• Industrial robots: LM robots, SCARA robots and vertical articulated arms, with the new A Series rated by the site as 33 percent better in repeat precision than its predecessor and 30 kg lighter.
• Vision-guided SCARA: a SCARA robot that tracks products on a moving conveyor and uses a vision camera to find screw fastening points, demonstrated on a TV assembly line.
• Mobile robots: AGVs and AMRs for material transport inside plants.
• Semiconductor equipment: wafer transfer modules (EFEM), load port modules (LPM) and wafer transfer robots.
• Control software: vision and software-based control, with a SaaS division for software products.

Services and new markets

The site says Robostar is moving from equipment sales toward maintenance and service, to build a steadier income base. It plans to sell smart factory solutions to mid-sized and smaller manufacturers and to supply semiconductor transfer equipment. In the United States, where smart factory demand is high, it plans to send engineers for maintenance and operating services. The company also lists glass substrate robots among its future growth areas and states an ambition to rank first globally in robot-based smart factories.

Key facts

• Based in: Suwon, South Korea
• Products: LM robots, SCARA robots, A Series articulated robots, AGVs, AMRs, EFEM wafer transfer modules
• Markets: South Korea, with plans for the United States