# WIRobotics: robotics company

Canonical ID: `e80f0850-f821-4c7e-ae40-51f84d71381b`

## Key facts

- **Funding:** [$68M Series B (May 2026, led by JB Investment; backers include InterVest, Hana Ventures, Smilegate, SBVA, NH Investment); KRW 13B Series A (Mar 2024)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Products:** WIM wearable walking-assist robot (3000+ units sold globally in Europe, China, Turkiye, Japan); ALLEX [humanoid](/humanoids) platform (upper body unveiled Aug 2025)
- **Founded:** June 2021, by four former Samsung Robotics Development Team engineers; Co-CEOs Yong-Jae Kim (CTO, KOREATECH professor) and Younbaek Lee
- **HQ:** Cheonan, South Korea
- **ALLEX specs:** 15-DOF compliant hand (~700g, 40N fingertip force, 30kg hook grip); ultra-low-friction backdrivable arm (~5kg shoulder-down); gravity-compensated upper body; whole-body force sensing without force sensors; 3kg+ single-hand payload
- **Partnerships:** NVIDIA Physical AI Fellowship; joint research with AWS and NVIDIA; strategic partnership with RLWRLD; collaborations with MIT, UIUC, UMass, KIST, Maxon
- **Co-CEOs:** [Yeonbaek Lee](/people/yeonbaek-lee.md) and Yongjae Kim
- **Commercial sales:** Wearable robots since 2023
- **CES 2026:** Showcased WIM S and ALLEX [humanoid](/humanoids)

- **Slug:** wirorobotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2021
- **HQ:** Cheonan, South Korea

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Yeonbaek Lee](/people/yeonbaek-lee.md) Co-CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is WIRobotics?

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.

### What does WIRobotics make?

WIRobotics has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. WIRobotics builds physical robots.

### Where is WIRobotics headquartered?

WIRobotics is headquartered in Cheonan, South Korea.

### Is WIRobotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, WIRobotics ranks in roughly the top 17% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was WIRobotics founded?

WIRobotics was founded in 2021.


## Sources (3)

1. https://ventureburn.com/wirorobotics-raises-68m-series-b-robotics/
2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wirobotics-unveils-allex-a-general-purpose-humanoid-with-human-like-responsiveness-302532078.html
3. https://corp.wirobotics.com/en/media

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