AsiaFocus market
🇰🇷 South Korea Robotics
Strong cobot and component base (actuators, reducers); chaebol-led humanoid push.
Companies
10
Total funding
$105M
Funding, 12 months
$105M
Robots tracked
0
M&A
0
Top companies
| Company | Sector | Stage | Total funding | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holiday Robotics | — | Series A | $105M | $105M |
| AeiROBOT | — | Series A | — | |
| Doosan Robotics | Collaborative Robot | Public | — | |
| Hyundai Motor Group | Autonomous Mobility | Public | — | |
| LG Electronics | — | Public | — | |
| NAVER LABS | — | Subsidiary | — | |
| Rainbow Robotics | Collaborative Robot | Public | — | |
| Robotis | — | Public | — | |
| Samsung Electronics | — | Public | — | |
| Wonik Robotics | — | Growth | — |
Companies in South Korea
Recent funding
- Wonik Robotics · Convertible preferred (third-party allotment) · led by Korea Development Bank (Advanced Strategic Industry Fund)—
- Holiday Robotics · Series A$105M
- Robotis · Rights offering (shareholder allotment)—
- Robotis · Convertible preferred (third-party allotment)—
- Robotis · IPO (KOSDAQ public offering)—
- Robotis · Private placement (third-party allotment)—
- Robotis · Private placement (third-party allotment)—
M&A
None on record.
News
- Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
- What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
- ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create
- Columbia spinout Tangent Robotics raises $4.5 million to give factory robots a sense of touch
- Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
- Korea names Daegu–Gyeongbuk a national advanced-industry zone for robotics
- Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027
- General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
- Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity
- Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids