Hyundai Motor Company, along with its Robotics LAB, has won 18 prestigious iF Design Awards for 2025, highlighting its dedication to innovative and sustainable design across various sectors.
Why Hyundai’s iF Design Award victories matter
This achievement underscores Hyundai’s reputation as a design-driven leader, with 11 consecutive years of recognition at the iF Design Awards, reinforcing its focus on future mobility solutions.
This year, Hyundai Motor’s victories at the iF Design Awards span a total of eight disciplines and 12 categories, highlighting the breadth of the company’s design excellence, from automobiles to brand communications.
“This recognition from iF Design Award is a testament to the exceptional dedication exhibited by our team of visionary designers and collaborative engineers. It highlights the remarkable competitiveness of Hyundai’s design identity within the global market.”
SangYup Lee
Automotive:
The SPACE (Spatial Curated Experience) concept is a hydrogen-powered public mobility system designed for unrestricted travel, including for those with mobility impairments. It features adaptive seating and boarding height controls for various user needs and its modules are reborn at the end of their lifespan into recycled pavilion structures.
The Robotics LAB’s ‘X-ble Shoulder’ is designed to reduce worker injury risks and keep them healthy. Tailored for auto manufacturing employees, who often lift their arms above head height over 3,600 times daily, this wearable robot features a minimalist design for easy use and comfort.
The Robotics LAB’s ACR (Automatic Charging Robot) Service, accessible to all users including those with disabilities, uses AI to assess parking status and charge the vehicle, whether parked manually, by an automatic parking robot, or autonomously.
The IONIQ showroom in Bangkok utilizes robotics technologies, including industrial and parking robots to showcase Hyundai Motor Group’s E-GMP EV platform, presenting IONIQ’s technology to visitors in a playful and intuitive way.
This show booth embodies Hyundai Motor’s vision and core technologies, presenting a future human-centered space powered by hydrogen energy and software-driven transformation through an experiential exhibit of future mobility.
As the first IONIQ experience center in Bangkok, Thailand, IONIQ Lab offers a space where visitors can engage with technology and lifestyle content related to the IONIQ brand. It serves as a hub for innovation, leading Thailand’s electric vehicle (EV) market.
What are the iF Design Awards?
The iF Design Awards, established in 1954, is a prestigious competition in the design world. Around 10,800 designs from 72 nations are evaluated every year. Winning requires passing a rigorous two-stage selection process, affirming a design’s relevance and impact. All award-winning entries are presented on www.ifdesign.com and published in the iF Design App.