South Korea has a robot density of 1,220 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers (2024, measured IFR data), up 20.6% from 1,012 in 2023. It hosts 19 TOP500 supercomputers. Roboradar24 is tracking 347 automation signals for South Korea.
Data updated 2026-11-06 · refreshed daily
Robot density: IFR World Robotics 2024 (via Our World in Data), refreshed automatically. Supercomputer count: TOP500 list, June 2026, refreshed automatically — a count of 0 means no system on the current list. AV-fleet figures are modeled estimates pending a live feed.
South Korea's industrial robot density reached 1220 robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers in 2024, up from 1012 in 2023 — a 20.6% year-over-year increase. That places it #1 of 53 countries we track. Both figures come directly from IFR World Robotics via Our World in Data.
On high-performance computing, South Korea has 19 systems on the current TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
South Korea has the highest robot density of the 53 countries on this site and, in 2024, also the fastest growth. IFR measured 1,220 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, up from 1,012 in 2023. That one-year rise of 208 is more than the entire 2024 density of France (195), Finland and Spain (183 each) or China (166). Its 20.6% growth is the highest of the 19 IFR-measured countries with a year-over-year figure, ahead of China's 16.9%. Singapore, second on density, is 402 robots behind at 818.
Supercomputing is the exception. Korea's 19 systems on the June 2026 TOP500 list rank sixth, behind France's 21.
The deployment reports filed for Korea in September and October 2026 show robots moving into settings outside manufacturing, which IFR's density figure does not cover. CJ Logistics put humanoid robots to work in its warehouses and logistics sites. POSCO deployed robots for facility management and safety at its Seoul headquarters. Korea Southern Power used quadruped robots for safety inspections in hazardous power-plant areas in September, and again in a disaster-response exercise in October.
Several funding reports from late August to early October involve public money. They include an equity investment approved by the National Growth Fund in robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics and in CJ 4DPLEX, and Doosan Robotics' selection for two government physical-AI R&D projects. In mid-October, Hyundai Motor and Qualcomm joined Korea's AI and robotics industry association as executive members.
Written 2026-11-02 · IFR robot density, data year 2024 · TOP500 list, June 2026 · signals filed August to October 2026
Note: the autonomous-vehicle fleet figure shown above is a modeled estimate — no authority publishes verified per-country AV fleet counts — and is excluded from the Automation Score, which uses only measured robot density and live signal activity.
Automation, robotics and AI developments detected in South Korea by our Signal Engine, which scans industry press and news feeds hourly. Showing the 8 most recent of 347 tracked for South Korea.
South Korea ranks #1 of 53 countries on the Roboradar24 Automation Score, which anchors to measured IFR robot density and adjusts it by recent automation-signal activity.
South Korea has 1220 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees (2024 data), up from 1012 in 2023. Source: IFR World Robotics via Our World in Data.
The automation signals on this page are scraped hourly and are genuinely live. Robot density comes from the IFR World Robotics dataset, which is published annually — we re-fetch it automatically so the figure updates as soon as IFR releases new data.
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