DaedongRobotics, the AI-robotics specialist of the Daedong Group, announced on the 12th that DivotFiX, a golf divot-repair AI robot being co-developed with HL Group, has won an Innovation Award at CES 2026. 

The award recognizes that DivotFiX, exhibited at CES 2026 by HL D&I Halla, was selected as an Innovation Award honoree in both the Robotics and Advanced Mobility categories, acknowledging both its potential to automate golf-course turf maintenance and its technological maturity.

DaedongRobotics is jointly developing DivotFiX together with HL D&I Halla and HL Mando; the three companies signed a technical cooperation MOU in August last year and have since continued joint development that combines each company’s core strengths.

In the course of developing DivotFiX, DaedongRobotics was responsible for the exterior design and hardware architecture, based on its agricultural transport-robot platform.

HL Mando took charge of developing the software algorithms focused on autonomous-driving and AI-perception technologies, while HL D&I Halla is responsible for locating divots using drone mapping and building the web-based AI platform.

The company explained that the CES Innovation Award is highly meaningful in that it recognizes, in the global market, both DivotFiX’s differentiation as a golf-course automation solution and its potential for future business expansion.

DivotFiX is an intelligent autonomous robot that detects divots—areas of turf damaged during play—using vision AI and LiDAR, and then automatically dispenses sand and restores the surface through a metered spraying system. By automating divot-repair work that previously relied heavily on manual labor, it is expected to greatly improve work efficiency and strengthen consistency in course-quality management.

Leveraging the development of DivotFiX, DaedongRobotics is expanding its agriculture-focused robotics portfolio into outdoor service-robot fields such as leisure, sports, and public infrastructure. The company added that, after commercialization, it expects to create synergies by combining the golf-course sales network of its parent company DaedongMobility with HL D&I Halla’s experience in golf-course maintenance.

Junku Yuh, CEO of DaedongRobotics, said, “Our divot-repair robot winning a CES 2026 Innovation Award is yet another recognition on the global stage of Daedong Group’s technological capabilities, following last year’s Innovation Award for our AI cultivator.” He added, “We will continue to develop intelligent robots specialized for a wide range of outdoor tasks, such as this divot-repair robot, and further expand our presence in the market.”