{"slug": "hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators", "title": "Hyundai Elevator testing API to help robots use elevators", "summary": "Hyundai Elevator's Miri API now lets more than 70 robots in South Korea call, board and exit elevators without human help, with the software link in use on about 91 of the company's elevators, a company official said at the International Lift Expo Korea in Goyang. The official told Korea Industry Daily that, with overseas demand recently confirmed, Hyundai Elevator plans to take the service abroad from 2027; the company first published the cloud-based open API in March 2022. At the expo, a Hyundai Movex automated guided vehicle demonstrated calling and boarding an elevator, and a Hyundai Movex official said the platform can also work with other makers' robots.", "body_md": "[Robotics & embodied AI](https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/tag/topic-robotics/)\n\n# Hyundai Elevator testing API to help robots use elevators\n\nThe company plans to take its robot-elevator software abroad from 2027, citing demand seen overseas.\n\nMore than 70 robots in South Korea now call elevators, ride them and step off at the right floor with no human help, says Hyundai Elevator (현대엘리베이터), an elevator maker based in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, and part of the Hyundai Group (현대그룹).\n\nIts software link is in use on about 91 of its elevators. Robots can’t press call buttons, so without such a link they need a person to call the car for them or extra equipment fitted to the elevator.\n\nThe link, which [Hyundai Elevator](https://www.hyundaielevator.co.kr/en?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) calls the [Miri API](https://www.hyundaielevator.co.kr/en/solution/service/connected/open-api?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), relays messages between a robot fleet's control system and the elevator's control panel. The robot sends its starting and destination floors, the software calls a car, and it signals when the door opens so the robot can board. The company first published an open API linking its elevators with robots and smart devices in March 2022 and says it runs in the cloud, needing no extra equipment, [New Daily (뉴데일리) reported](https://biz.newdaily.co.kr/site/data/html/2025/03/14/2025031400184.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io).\n\nA company official gave the latest count at the International Lift Expo Korea in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, and [told Korea Industry Daily](https://kidd.co.kr/news/248131?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (산업일보) that, with demand recently confirmed overseas, the company plans to take the service abroad from 2027. At its booth, an automated guided vehicle from [Hyundai Movex](https://www.hyundaimovex.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (현대무벡스), a Seoul-based logistics-automation company in the [Hyundai Group](https://www.hyundaigroup.com/eng/product/subsidiary.asp?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), called and boarded an elevator in a demonstration. A Hyundai Movex official said the platform can also work with other makers' robots.\n\nEarlier, in March 2025, Hyundai Elevator said more than 40 delivery robots at hospitals, hotels and banks used its elevators, according to New Daily. In April 2026, [Herald Economy (헤럴드경제) reported](https://www.heraldk.com/article/2026040216572543326?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) at least 50 robots at about 20 sites. At [Yongin Severance Hospital](https://yi.severance.healthcare/yi-en/about/overview.do?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (용인세브란스병원) in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, it said, 11 robots run by [LG Electronics](https://www.lg.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), [SK Telecom](https://www.sktelecom.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) and [Twinny](https://twinny.ai/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (트위니), a logistics-robot maker in Daejeon, carry blood, specimens and medical supplies on Hyundai elevators.\n\nRival Otis offers a similar link. It [says its API](https://www.otis.com/en/company/innovation/elevators-and-service-robots?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) works with most Otis commercial elevators made since the 1990s, and that Japan, South Korea and Singapore are at the center of the trend for elevator-riding robots.\n\n*Sources*\n\nEditor: Ian Lamont", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators", "canonical_source": "https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators/", "published_at": "2026-11-13 21:52:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 21:54:08.969104+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "ai-agents", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Hyundai Elevator", "Hyundai Group", "Miri API", "Hyundai Movex", "Otis", "LG Electronics", "SK Telecom", "Twinny"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hyundai-elevator-testing-api-to-help-robots-use-elevators.jsonld"}}