WIRobotics, a South Korean robotics company, completed a Series B round of KRW 95 billion (about $68m), it announced on 15 May 2026. JB Investment led the round, joined by InterVest, Hana Ventures, Smilegate Investment, SBVA, NH Investment & Securities, Company K Partners, GU Investment and FuturePlay.
All investors from the company's Series A returned for the new round. That earlier round was KRW 13 billion, raised in March 2024, so the Series B is roughly eight times larger, according to Startup Recipe. No valuation was disclosed.
The press release headline described the round as approximately KRW 100 billion, while its text gave KRW 95 billion. The 95 billion figure is used here, as it is the one given in the release body and by the independent outlets. Wowtale converted it to about $63.5m, against the company's $68m, a difference in exchange rate.
“The real human motion data and control technologies accumulated through our wearable robots can be extended to next-generation humanoid robotics — and global markets are beginning to recognize that potential.”Yeonbaek Lee, Co-CEO, WIRobotics
From wearable robots to humanoids
WIRobotics was founded in 2021 and is led by co-chief executives Yeonbaek Lee and Yongjae Kim. Its commercial product is WIM, a wearable walking-assist robot. The company says WIM is in its third year of sales, has passed 3,000 cumulative units sold and has expanded into Europe, China, Turkey and Japan. It has won CES Innovation Awards three years in a row.
The company is now developing ALLEX, a humanoid robot platform. It argues that the movement data and control technology gathered through WIM can be carried over to humanoids. Over three years it has built datasets from WIM users, including personalised assistive settings matched to individual gait patterns.
Revenue and partners
The company reported revenue of KRW 560 million in 2023, KRW 1.3 billion in 2024 and KRW 2.79 billion in 2025. It said first-quarter 2026 revenue had already passed its full-year 2024 total. These are company figures.
WIRobotics said it was recently selected for NVIDIA's Physical AI Fellowship and is working with AWS and NVIDIA on physical AI, including joint research and proof-of-concept projects with research institutions and car makers. Wowtale reported that it is in talks with global automakers about trials in manufacturing settings.
What the money is for
Startup Recipe reported that the new capital goes to developing and commercialising ALLEX. The company targets a research-grade humanoid platform by the end of 2026 and a mass-production system in late 2027, according to both Startup Recipe and Wowtale. Startup Recipe added that WIRobotics plans to set up a US entity in California to target the North American market.
Lee said the real human motion data and control technologies accumulated through wearable robots can be extended to next-generation humanoids, and that global markets are beginning to recognise that potential.
The company describes itself as a global robotics firm building wearable and humanoid systems from human movement data. Its Series A investors, all of whom returned, were not named separately in the announcement, and the sources did not say how the new money is split between the humanoid programme and the wearable business.
The sources did not report headcount or total funding to date.
Company website: wirobotics.com