{"id":264274,"date":"2026-02-02T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264274\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:02:11","slug":"hyundai-motor-to-deploy-ai-robots-at-us-plants-as-trump-tariffs-hit-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Motor to deploy AI robots at US plants as Trump tariffs hit profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automobiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Humanoids by Boston Dynamics can run 24 hours a day<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260201N Hyundai Robot 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Boston Dynamics, which Hyundai Motor Group acquired in 2021, will open a training center in the U.S. this year for robots that will work at Hyundai&#8217;s plants. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>NAMI MATSUURA<\/p>\n<p>February 3, 2026 02:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; Hyundai Motor Group will introduce AI-powered humanoid robots from subsidiary Boston Dynamics at U.S. auto plants starting in 2026, with plans to deploy over 30,000 units in coming years\u00a0as President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs squeeze its North American profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Automobiles Humanoids by Boston Dynamics can run 24 hours a day Boston Dynamics, which Hyundai Motor Group acquired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,84796,3594,34547,6844,111,139,69,5301,5340,11393,7677,145,2179,3040],"class_list":["post-264274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-deploy","tag-hit","tag-hyundai","tag-motor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plants","tag-profit","tag-robots","tag-tariffs","tag-technology","tag-trump","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}