By Tony Low · AI in APAC · October 19, 2026

Vietnam has spent two decades as an assembly hub for other people’s electronics. Now it’s trying to build the robots themselves — and the pieces are starting to come together.

In Bac Ninh province, US-based AMC Robotics has stood up a 6,150-square-metre facility through its new local subsidiary, AMCV Company Limited, backed by roughly $3.5 million in buildout and equipment spending. Production of its NovaArm robotic arm — built for high-precision warehouse sorting and industrial automation — is set to begin in the second half of this year, with the site expected to later support other products such as a quadruped robot.

Alongside the inward investment, homegrown hardware is emerging too. Vingroup’s robotics arm VinDynamics debuted its Dyno humanoid at ICRA 2026 in Vienna and at Computex Taipei in June, and has since piloted it as a multilingual guide at Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc. A sister company, VinRobotics, has been showing its VR-H3 humanoid platform at international events since late May under a “Make in Vietnam” banner.

Vietnamese firms are also lining up technology partners to close the gap with established robotics players: Vingroup signed with embodied-AI specialist Skild AI in June to explore robot manipulation and edge AI, while a partnership with semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is aimed at next-generation robotics hardware, including a planned joint competency centre.

None of this erases the scale gap with the region’s dominant humanoid producers — Chinese vendors accounted for the large majority of global humanoid shipments in the first half of this year. But between a new foreign-backed factory floor and a fast-growing home-grown robotics ecosystem, Vietnam is wagering that robotics can become the next chapter of its manufacturing story, not just another assembly line for someone else’s machines.

Source: “Vietnam’s Robot Ambitions Grow With New Factory, Homegrown Humanoids”, eWeek, 20 August 2026 (updated 2 October 2026).

Tony Low covers AI applications and technology deployments across the region for AIAPAC.ai Insights.