Wenn Sie eine riesige Legion humanoider Roboter auf dem Boden einer Autofabrik einsetzen, steigern diese dann tatsächlich die Effizienz und ersetzen Arbeitskräfte, oder ist das nur eine Unternehmensphantasie? Eine Autoarbeitergewerkschaft in Südkorea, wo Hyundai eines Tages möglicherweise eine solche Roboterlegion einsetzen wird, scheint diese Frage nicht zu stellen. Stattdessen geht es im Wesentlichen um die Zusicherung, dass es eine Vereinbarung geben wird, die den Schlag abfedert, wenn – und nicht erst, wenn – die Roboter kommen, um den Menschen die Arbeit wegzunehmen.
https://gizmodo.com/a-south-korean-labor-union-is-in-revolt-over-robots-or-maybe-its-surrendering-to-them-2000786194
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More specifically, [according to CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/hyundai-motor-group-plans-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-at-us-factory-from-2028.html), Hyundai plans to bring Atlas robots to its plant near Savannah, Georgia by 2028, and initially have them perform “sequencing,” or placing parts in the correct order for assembly. Apparently that will only involve small parts at the beginning, but if all goes according to plan, by 2030, Atlas robots will perform, again per CNBC, “tasks involving heavy loads, repetitive motions and complex operations across production sites.”
In some ways, the labor movement in South Korea has been ferocious this year. For instance, to avert an impending strike in May, Samsung made an astonishing deal with unionized workers at its memory plant that paid out to the tune of [almost $400,000 per worker](https://gizmodo.com/samsung-chip-workers-approve-amazing-deal-to-avert-strike-2000763762) in bonuses, as estimated by Yonhap News Agency. Perhaps with that in mind, Hyundai workers in Ulsan, South Korea launched a three-day partial strike earlier this week as part of its routine annual wage talks. The action, [according to the Korea Herald](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10807072), involved workers leaving two hours early across two shifts, resulting in four hours of lost productivity per day for Hyundai. According to Bloomberg, this is after [last week’s talks failed to result in an agreement](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-15/china-sends-robots-out-into-the-world-to-learn-how-to-be-human).
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What the union seems to be demanding isn’t that humanoid robots never be used in factories, but simply a more favorable deal with eventual robot use in mind: a change from hourly wages to salary—“to guard against a potential reduction in work hours brought on by automation,” the Journal says—along with a somewhat counterintuitive demand that the retirement age be moved from 60 to 65.