According to Reuters, Taiwan’s Foxconn and Nvidia, U.S. AI chips maker, are “in talks” using humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston that makes Nvidia AI servers. The humanoid robots will start producing products by Q1 of 2026.
The deployment will transform manufacturing processes with human-like robots:
This would be the first time that an Nvidia product will be made with the assistance of humanoid robots and would be Foxconn’s first AI server factory to use them on a production line, the sources said.
Nvidia earlier in April, announced building AI supercomputer manufacturing factories with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas.
The humanoid robots will start in the first quarter of next year and will begin production of Nvidia’s GB300 AI servers in Houston. The type and amount of robots that will be used has not been determined yet. Foxconn and Nvidia have both been developing humanoid robots and has tried humanoid robots from China’s UBTech. The new factory provides more space than other existing AI server manufacturing sites and is therefore more suitable for robotic manufacturing.
A few details have emerged as to what tasks the robots will be performing:
And while it was not clear what exactly the robots will be doing at the factory, Foxconn has been training them to pick and place objects, insert cables and do assembly work, according to a company presentation in May.
Some robotics will have legs and the other will use a wheeled autonomous mobile robot (AMR) base, less costly than the “legs” version.
Foxconn plans on introducing two versions of its humanoid robots at a November event:
Leo Guo, general manager of the robotics business unit at Foxconn Industrial Internet (601138.SS), opens new tab, a subsidiary of Foxconn that is in charge of the group’s AI server business, said last month at an industry event in Taipei that Foxconn plans to showcase at the company’s annual technology event in November two versions of humanoid robots that it has developed.
