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 380 automation signals for South Korea.
Data updated 2026-09-21 · 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.
Growth of this kind typically reflects capital investment in automated production lines rather than a shrinking manufacturing workforce — density rises when robot installations outpace employment. Read it alongside the live deployment signals below, which capture the specific installations and contracts driving the trend. On high-performance computing, South Korea has 19 systems on the current TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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 380 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 below 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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