Samsung Display
South Korean OLED/QD-OLED panel maker supplying display components for humanoid robot faces, including Tesla's Optimus program.
Samsung Display Co., Ltd. is a South Korean display panel manufacturer formed in 2012 when Samsung Electronics consolidated its Samsung Mobile Display and Samsung LCD businesses after acquiring Sony's remaining stake in the S-LCD joint venture. The company is headquartered at 1 Samsung-ro, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and operates production facilities in South Korea as well as overseas plants in China, Vietnam, and India, with sales offices across six countries. Samsung Display is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and functions as one of the world's largest suppliers of OLED display panels, alongside its newer QD-OLED (quantum dot OLED) product line. The company discontinued LCD panel production in June 2022 to focus on OLED and QD-OLED technology. Its product range spans rigid and flexible OLED panels for smartphones, foldable and curved-edge OLED displays, circular OLED panels for smartwatches, small- and mid-size OLED panels for tablets and laptops, and larger QD-OLED panels used in television sets and high-end computer monitors. Samsung Display also supplies automotive display panels and OLED panels for VR headsets and gaming handhelds, positioning itself across consumer electronics, IT, and industrial display segments. As display technology has moved into robotics hardware, Samsung Display has extended its OLED panel manufacturing into components for humanoid robot face and head display assemblies; as of July 2026 the company was reported to be an existing panel supplier for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program and to have introduced OLED panels specifically engineered for humanoid robot face displays, applying its flexible and curved OLED manufacturing know-how (developed for foldable smartphones and wearables) to robotics-oriented form factors. Because it is a component supplier rather than a robot builder, Samsung Display's relevance to the robotics industry centers on providing the visual interface hardware — thin, curved, and shape-adaptable OLED modules — that robotics OEMs integrate into humanoid and service robot heads for expression, status display, and human-robot interaction. The company competes with other large-panel makers such as LG Display and Chinese manufacturers including BOE and CSOT in the broader OLED supply market, while maintaining a technology lead in flexible and foldable OLED manufacturing derived from its smartphone panel business built for Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Fold and Flip device lines.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
AI OLED Bot
13.4-inch OLED display used as an expressive robot face for an AI communication and campus-guide teaching-assistant robot.
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Contact Samsung Display
WEBSITE
https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/index.jspPHONE
+82-31-5181-1114HEADQUARTERS
Korea, Republic of (South)
Company Facts
Founded
2012
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
Subsidiary / Acquired
Funding Total
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