Taiwan’s Foxlink pivots to Nvidia-powered robots
台灣正崴精密工業（Foxlink）轉向採用 Nvidia 驅動的機器人
| TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Longtime Apple component maker Foxlink is shifting from the consumer electronics sector by investing in AI-driven robotics built on Nvidia’s development tools, Nikkei Asia reported Tuesday.
Freddy Kuo (郭守富), chair of Foxlink’s newly established Sync Robotic, told Nikkei Asia that the company is investing in the “brains of robotics” to move beyond traditional contract manufacturing. The robotics company has launched AI-powered quadruped patrol bots, developed with Nvidia’s Omniverse platform and Jetson Orin Nano developer kits. “We’ve been in the manufacturing sector for decades,” he explained. “What inspired us is that it is always the companies providing the software that are the most profitable.” Foxlink was founded in 1986 by T.C. Gou (郭台強), brother of Foxconn’s Terry Gou (郭台銘), and supplies cables and connectors to top brands including Apple. In recent years, it has expanded into high-speed server parts for Nvidia while diversifying into robotics to buffer slowing consumer electronics demand. Freddy Kuo, son of Foxlink’s founder, said Foxlink’s transition strategy aims to have renewables, AI data centers, and robotics contribute half of revenue by 2030. Its renewable energy unit, Shinfox, has built offshore wind farms in Taiwan, while Foxlink’s partnership with Ubitus last year opened a supercomputing center ranked 31st globally. Foxlink’s new robots, Davis and Jeff, combine vision and speech recognition AI for security and patrol roles and are in proof-of-concept trials at its factories and solar farms. The company is pairing these with security solutions from Luminys Systems, a provider acquired from China’s Dahua after it was blacklisted by Washington. Beyond patrol robots, Foxlink is working with Nvidia to develop industrial automation tools that can handle difficult processes, such as sorting tangled cables, a challenge once considered impossible to automate. Foxlink hopes these moves will help it respond to US-China tensions as it diversifies its manufacturing into Southeast Asia, India, and the US despite higher costs. |
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| Michael Nakhiengchanh Taiwan News, Staff Writer | |
| 2025-07-02 |
