AI serving robot from KT carries foods and drinks during a demonstration at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
A serving robot from KT at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea.
  • South Korean restaurants are using AI robots to cope with labor shortages.
  • Robots made in China are vastly cheaper than those from South Korea.
  • There are fears that the cut-price competition could hit Korea's robotics industry.

Tech executives in South Korea are concerned that a flood of cheap Chinese robots is undermining their own attempts to sell their own devices, a report says.