Samsung robot Milky way folds up to 200000 times

Last month, Samsung launched Galaxy Fold, and its unpackaged campaign caused a sensation. Although the phone won't be released until next month, the South Korean phone maker is already producing two other folding smartphones.

In the minds of many people, the real question is: how will these screens support repeated folding and expansion? To find out, Samsung created a specially designed robot to test the screen limits of the Galaxy Fold.

If you bend a wire again and again until it breaks in half, you will observe the stress that may be caused by repeated bending. To ensure that the phone, especially its screen, is ready for market, Samsung has conducted several rounds of folding tests with its robot. The video above shows their actions, which is a bit fascinating.

A round of tests took a whole week and turned the phone through 200000 times. This figure is equivalent to a user turning on and off his phone 100 times a day for five years. It is speculated that most phones have passed the test because the company continues to use it and other planned devices. But Samsung did not give the failure rate of the screen.

Still, it's cool to watch robots work. It can even better observe how the hinge mechanism works and what the phone looks like in action.