Foreign Ownership Ratio Rises from 0.75% to 3.35%
Stock Price Up 61.6% This Year
Strengthening Cooperation with Domestic Robot Manufacturers
HiZen R&M has been rising sharply this year. Global big tech companies such as Tesla and Nvidia, as well as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Company, are actively investing in the robotics industry. With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and growing expectations for the growth of the robotics industry centered on humanoids, HiZen R&M is gaining attention.
According to the financial investment industry on the 13th, HiZen R&M's stock price has risen 61.6% since the beginning of this year. Compared to the KOSDAQ index, which rose 5.9% during the same period, the market outperformance is 55.7 percentage points. During this period, foreigners purchased HiZen R&M stocks worth 14.2 billion KRW. The foreign ownership ratio increased from 0.75% at the end of last year to 3.35%.
HiZen R&M is a company that produces various motors such as general-purpose electric motors for power transmission, servo motors for control, actuators for robots, and motors for electric vehicles. It is the only domestic company producing servo motors up to 75 kW. It has secured competitiveness for market entry through advanced technology in low-voltage motors and drives. The company continuously researches and develops robot motors used in industrial robots and collaborative robots. In the long term, it has selected permanent magnet drive modules for robots and mobility as core future vision technologies and is promoting them.
Jinhyuk Kang, a researcher at Shinhan Investment Corp., explained, "The potential of humanoid robots has come along with AI. Although the form and movement of humans can be imitated, intelligence implementation was limited, but AI now enables autonomous judgment."
AI algorithms are advancing beyond large language models (LLM) that process language information to large action models (LAM) that pattern and learn behavioral information. This means the commercialization of humanoid robots is approaching. Market research firm SkyQuest Technology Research forecasted that the humanoid market size will grow from $1.48 billion in 2021 to $34.96 billion by 2030.
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs projected that the humanoid robot market will reach 1.38 million units by 2035. The manufacturing cost is expected to decrease from $250,000 in 2022 to $150,000 by 2030.
To avoid falling behind in the humanoid competition, domestic conglomerates are also sparing no investment. Samsung Electronics established the 'Future Robot Promotion Team' directly under the CEO and entered the humanoid robot development competition. Samsung plans to integrate its AI and software technology with Rainbow Robotics' robot technology. Boston Dynamics, acquired by Hyundai Motor Company in 2021, unveiled the 'All-New Atlas' at the end of last year, which operates solely on electricity instead of the previous hydraulic system. They showcased their technology with a video of the robot performing a backflip while wearing a Santa Claus outfit for Christmas.
Sungkyu Heo, a researcher at Shinhan Investment Corp., predicted, "This year, cooperation with robot companies manufacturing collaborative robots and humanoids will be strengthened, and sample requests will increase mainly from domestic robot manufacturers."
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