ROBUST was established on January 8, 2004 in Hukou Township, Hsinchu County. In its early years, the company took the repair and maintenance of Novellus CMP and the supply of parts as its major business. In 2005, ROBUST allied itself with Novellus, a major manufacturer of semiconductor equipment in the US, and became the designated provider of repair, maintenance, and technical service of robots in the Greater China Region for Novellus. Thence, ROBUST repositioned itself as a professional provider of repair, maintenance and other services of automatic robots. ROBUST became the designated strategic partner of United Microelectronics Corporation(UMC), a major semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan, in 2006 for providing UMC with repair and maintenance services of automatic robots.