WIRobotics raises $US68m in Series B for humanoid robots

South Korean robotics startup WIRobotics has raised KRW 95 billion ($US68 million) in a Series B round to move deeper into humanoid robots after building its business in wearable assistive devices. The company said the money will go to commercialising its ALLEX humanoid platform and expanding its physical AI programme.

South Korean trade publication The Elec reported JB Investment led the financing, and WIRobotics said every investor from its March 2024 Series A also rejoined the cap table. In its funding announcement, the company said it has sold more than 3,000 WIM walking-assist units, posted KRW 2.79 billion in 2025 revenue and generated more revenue in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2024. It previously raised KRW 13 billion in March 2024.

Those numbers do not make WIRobotics a scaled humanoid robot vendor. They do show a business that has already shipped hardware, supported customers and collected movement data outside a laboratory.

Chief executive Yeonbaek Lee said in the release that “this investment represents global recognition that the real-world movement data and control technologies accumulated through wearable robotics can evolve into next-generation humanoid robotics”. That is the core argument behind the round.

WIRobotics wants investors to see its exoskeleton controls, field deployment experience and motion data as a practical starting point for a humanoid platform. That is a stronger commercial case than many physical AI startups can offer when they approach backers for a large round.

The distinction matters because humanoid robotics sits in one of the most expensive parts of the AI market. Components are costly, safety testing takes time and commercial deployments usually move more slowly than enterprise software roll-outs. Investors therefore tend to look for more than a prototype video before backing a company at this scale.

WIRobotics also said it is collaborating with NVIDIA and AWS, a sign the bet is not only on mechanics. Modern robotics programmes depend on compute, simulation and data pipelines as much as motors and actuators. Secondary coverage from AI Insider likewise described the company as a humanoid robotics and Physical AI platform, reinforcing its effort to broaden the story beyond rehabilitation hardware alone.

For Australian readers, the nearer-term implication is enterprise automation rather than home robots. If capital keeps flowing into physical AI, local manufacturers, logistics operators, healthcare providers and service businesses are likely to face a wider field of global robotics vendors as these systems move out of pilots and into commercial deployments.

Co-founder and vice-president Yongjae Kim said in the same statement that all Series A investors joined the new financing. WIRobotics did not disclose a valuation or a timetable for large-scale deployments, but the size of the raise shows investors are still willing to fund the hardware layer of AI alongside the software built on top of it.