Taiwan's Swancor Holdings is pushing into AI robots and promises its own four-legged robot next year, a hopeful sign for a chip-rich island short on workers.

• Swancor's smart-robot arm showed off a "Taiwan AI robot ecosystem" at Taipei's automation show with more than 10 local partners.
• Revenue has been small so far this year, but the company expects it to double in the third quarter.
• The plan: stop being just a reseller, start assembling its own robot dogs in October, then design the brain and joints in-house for a 2027 launch.
• Robots are aimed at inspection work, public safety, construction, education, and elder care — jobs Taiwan struggles to staff as its population shrinks.

Outlook: The real test comes next year, when Swancor has to prove it can build the core technology rather than assemble other people's parts.