Samsung Electronics announced on Sunday its plans to transform all its production facilities into AI-driven factories by 2030, integrating AI across all manufacturing processes.
The tech giant aims to revolutionize quality and productivity across its global manufacturing bases by implementing digital twin-based simulations throughout the entire production chain, from material intake to shipping. This will be achieved through enhanced data-driven analysis and pre-validation using AI agents for quality, production, and logistics.
Samsung will also expand AI applications into environmental safety, proactively identifying potential hazards on factory floors to prevent accidents and bolster overall safety in manufacturing environments.
Building on its AI expertise from the mobile division, Samsung plans to apply the Agentic AI technology, first introduced in the Galaxy S26, to drive manufacturing innovation. The company intends to enhance on-site autonomy by deploying AI agents across production, equipment maintenance, repairs, and logistics.
In its transition from automation to autonomy, Samsung is gradually introducing humanoid manufacturing robots across all production processes.
The company’s plans include implementing optimized manufacturing environments by combining AI with specialized robots: operating bots to manage production lines and equipment, logistics bots for material handling, and assembly bots for assembly tasks.
In high-risk areas, such as facilities with extreme temperatures or noise levels, Samsung will deploy digital-twin-based environmental safety bots to enhance worker safety and systematically mitigate on-site risks.
Lee Yong Soo, Vice President of Samsung Electronics’ Production Technology Research Institute, said the future of manufacturing innovation goes beyond simple automation. He emphasized that the real key is building autonomous manufacturing environments in which AI understands the production floor and makes optimal decisions on its own. He added that Samsung aims to stand at the forefront of AI-driven global manufacturing innovation.
At the upcoming MWC26, the world’s largest mobile communications industry exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung plans to unveil its industrial AI application strategy and showcase its vision for digital twin-based manufacturing innovation.
During the MWC26, Samsung will also present its strategy for strengthening governance in response to the expanding use of Agentic AI across various industries, including manufacturing, at the Samsung Mobile Business Summit (SMBS).
