The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies WIRobotics: 1 model, $68.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryWearable AI
Overview
South Korean robotics company (Cheonan) founded in 2021 by former Samsung Robotics engineers, building wearable walking-assist robots and Humanoid robots. Commercial sales of lower-back and walking-assist wearable robots began in 2023. Unveiled humanoid robot ALLEX upper body in summer 2025. Raised $68M total across seed and Series A.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Fundingsee investors →
Products
Founded
HQ
ALLEX specs
Partnerships
Co-CEOs
Commercial sales
CES 2026
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company WIRobotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1KIST Robotics1× joint1 total
- 2maxon Group1× joint3 total
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 4RLWRLD1× joint3 total
Most recent
WIRobotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Yeonbaek Lee Co-CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for WIRobotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
WIRobotics in third-party press
Financial state
- Total funding
- $68.0M
- Employees
- 38
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
4 total · 4 just announced
Every company WIRobotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1KIST Robotics1× joint1 total
- 2maxon Group1× joint3 total
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 4RLWRLD1× joint3 total
All 4 partnerships
open in the atlas →- WIRobotics x NVIDIAwithNVIDIA1108technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2025-01-01
$68M(reported) · $408M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in WIRobotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-01-01Series A raising $68000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 22, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for WIRobotics.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning WIRobotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
How WIRobotics is teaching humanoid robots to use human tools with AWS and NVIDIA
by Yong-Jae Kim, Minjae An, Alla Simoneau, Chris Ryu, Les Karpas, Minsoo Khang, Charlie Chang, and Yash Shah on 10 AUG 2026 in Amazon Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,…
WIRobotics Concludes CES 2026, Advancing into Execution Phase of Global Collaboration
WIRobotics showcased WIM S wearable and ALLEX humanoid at CES 2026, transitioning from demos to concrete business discussions.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/wirorobotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/wirorobotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e80f0850-f821-4c7e-ae40-51f84d71381b
- Revision history: /companies/wirorobotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Category contender83/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
WIRobotics draws attention at the 21st percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among wearable robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 8, 2026