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HD Hyundai accelerates AI-driven automation across its shipyards

7 September 2026
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HD Hyundai has launched a dedicated AI initiative to integrate artificial intelligence and automation throughout its shipbuilding operations, from design and production to welding robots and crane control, aiming to boost productivity, quality and safety.

HD Hyundai announced a major expansion of artificial intelligence and digital technologies across its shipbuilding operations, including HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and HD Hyundai Samho. The company is developing a Shipbuilding AI Master Agent to connect design and production expertise and leverage industrial data for real-time decision support. It is also deploying vision‑AI in welding robots to detect and correct defects during welding, and using digital-twin simulations to model crane operations and site conditions for safer, more efficient lifting plans.

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