Recently, KEENON Robotics (KEENON), a global leader in embodied service robotics, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with South Korean telecommunications giant KT Group (KT). By integrating their respective strengths and resources, the two companies will jointly promote the scaled deployment and deeper application of embodied intelligence across the South Korean market, accelerating the intelligent transformation of the country’s service industries.

South Korea’s service sector is undergoing a profound digital transformation, creating urgent demand for intelligent solutions that can improve operational efficiency across restaurants, hotels, commercial cleaning, golf facilities and other industries. As a leading ICT company in South Korea, KT continues to advance the integration of artificial intelligence and communications technologies and plays an important role in building a global intelligent service ecosystem.

As an embodied service robotics company with one of the world’s largest commercial deployment footprints, KEENON has shipped more than 100,000 robots, with products deployed in over 60 countries and regions. Backed by advanced technologies and a global operating network, the company has built one of the industry’s most comprehensive portfolios of multi-form-factor service robots, spanning humanoid, delivery and cleaning robots, to provide customers worldwide with cutting-edge embodied intelligence solutions.

These achievements demonstrate the viability of KEENON’s role-based deployment approach to reshaping service standards. Through its “general-purpose + specialized” strategy, the company is building a collaborative network of multi-form-factor service robots and driving the evolution of service robotics from single-function applications toward a more diverse and integrated service ecosystem.

This partnership represents a key step in KEENON’s continued global expansion and its commitment to advancing commercialization and localization in parallel. The two companies will focus on key South Korean sectors, including restaurants, hotels and commercial cleaning. By combining KEENON’s expertise in scaling multi-form-factor service robot deployments with KT’s local channel resources and ICT capabilities, they aim to build an efficient and intelligent service ecosystem.

The partnership will prioritize the broader deployment of embodied intelligence in South Korea, deeper adaptation to specific job roles and service scenarios, and the localized implementation of the “general-purpose + specialized” collaboration model.

Looking ahead, KEENON and KT will explore innovative business models, inject new momentum into the digital transformation of South Korea’s service industries, strengthen the sector’s international competitiveness and jointly shape the future of embodied intelligent services.