ITRI Opens AI Robotics Innovation and Development Center in Tainan

ITRI announced on May 19, 2026, that it had opened the AI Robotics Innovation & Development Center (ARIDC) at its Southern Campus in Tainan. The center will develop and test AI-powered robots in four fields: health care, logistics, food service and disaster response. It will serve as a hub connecting international startups with Taiwan’s manufacturing industry and applied research. ITRI Chairman Wu Tsung-hsin outlined two missions: accelerating the adoption of AI in industry and daily life, and strengthening robot intelligence, motion control and swarm coordination to boost Taiwan’s competitiveness.

The center gives startups and small and medium-sized enterprises developing robots for fields such as health care and logistics access to physical testing, as well as computing environments for digital twins and collaborative robots. According to ITRI, the center is designed to support the simultaneous operation of multiple large-scale 3D scene-description environments and complex physics simulations, making development and testing easier.