AsiaFocus market
🇰🇷 South Korea Robotics
Strong cobot and component base (actuators, reducers); chaebol-led humanoid push.
Companies
20
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 | — | |
| Angel Robotics | — | Public | — | |
| Clobot | — | Public | — | |
| Doosan Bobcat | — | Public | — | |
| Doosan Enerbility | — | Public | — | |
| Doosan Robotics | Collaborative Robot | Public | — | |
| Hanwha Robotics | — | Subsidiary | — | |
| Hyundai Mobis | — | Public | — | |
| Hyundai Motor Group | Autonomous Mobility | Public | — |
Companies in South Korea
Recent funding
- Wonik Robotics · Convertible preferred (third-party allotment) · led by Korea Development Bank (Advanced Strategic Industry Fund)—
- Clobot · Rights offering (shareholder allotment)—
- Holiday Robotics · Series A$105M
- WIRobotics · Series B · led by JB Investment—
- Neuromeka · Rights offering—
- Robotis · Rights offering (shareholder allotment)—
- Clobot · IPO (KOSDAQ public offering)—
- Angel Robotics · IPO (KOSDAQ public offering)—
M&A
None on record.
News
- Korea clears Robros to put 20 walking humanoids beside workers at chip, auto, shipyard and logistics sites
- SafeWorld leaves stealth with $12.2 million from Shine Capital and a16z speedrun to stress-test robots around people in simulation
- Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
- Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
- 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
- US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
- 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