Facts

• Segment: Actuation
• Country: South Korea
• Founded: 2020
• Website: https://grillx.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Beyond Honeycomb builds AI cooking robots and robot actuator technology in Seoul. GRILL X uses molecular sensing and robotic control to automate grilling across restaurants, cafeterias and hotels; by November 2025, the company had passed 100 customers and 200 installed units. In June 2026 it previewed the low-cost K-actuator drive module.

Market context

Beyond Honeycomb supplies AI-controlled cooking robots and robot actuator technology for foodservice automation, service-robot and smart-manipulation workflows.

Facts

• Website: https://grillx.ai/
• HQ: Seoul, South Korea
• Founded: 2020
• Segment: Actuation
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-07-09 - Series A bridge - $7M - Beyond Honeycomb raises $7.2M Series A bridge round - source: en.wowtale.net

Investors

• BNK Venture Investment - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-09
• Devsisters Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-09
• KDB - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-09
• KIBO - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-09
• LB Investment - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-09

Events

• 2026-06-17 - Product Launch - Beyond Honeycomb previews low-cost K-actuator robot drive module - The K-actuator targets 3 kg payload-class joint modules in the 40-60 Nm range.
• 2025-11-07 - Production Milestone - Beyond Honeycomb passes 100 customers and 200 installed GRILL X units - The company passed more than 100 cumulative customers and more than 200 installed units.
• 2025-07-09 - Funding - Beyond Honeycomb raises $7.2M Series A bridge round - The round totaled approximately $7.2 million, or KRW 10 billion, in Series A bridge funding.
• 2025-05-17 - Product Launch - Beyond Honeycomb debuts GRILL X at National Restaurant Association Show - The product was presented for precision grilling automation in commercial kitchen environments.
• 2024-01-23 - Partnership - Beyond Honeycomb introduces AI chef solution to Hanam Pig - The Hanam Pig AI chef solution announcement was dated January 23, 2024.
• 2023-07-25 - Deployment - Andaz Seoul Gangnam uses Beyond Honeycomb AI Chef Grill Robot - The installation was the first AI cooking robot in the domestic Korean hotel industry.
• 2022-09-27 - Deployment - Beyond Honeycomb opens Singularity restaurant with AI Chef robots - The restaurant demonstrated Beyond Honeycomb's AI Chef robot in a live foodservice environment.
• 2022-02-15 - Demonstration - Beyond Honeycomb demonstrates AI Chef at CES 2022 - The robot used food sensors to digitize taste and texture and reproduce dishes at molecular level.

Team

• Steve Jung - Chief Executive Officer - Founder-CEO context connects Beyond Honeycomb’s GRILL X commercialization to AI appliance research, robotic control and foodservice automation.
• Zoey Jung - Chief Technology Officer
• Andrew Kim - Chief Revenue Officer
• Wayne Lee - Chief Financial Officer
• Wyatt Kim - Productization
• Mark Kim - Robotics Engineer
• Phill Jang - AI Engineer
• Andy Shim - Business Strategy
• Jake Huh - Business Strategy

Relationships

• robot restaurant deployment - Beyond Honeycomb opened Singularity in Pangyo Techno Valley with AI Chef robots as the main cooks.

Context tags

• Actuation - Stack Layer - Beyond Honeycomb previewed the K-actuator robot drive module.
• Robot joint actuator supplier - Peer Group - The K-actuator is a robot joint/drive module for service robots and smart manipulation.
• Actuator component supplier - Stack Layer - The company describes the K-actuator as a mass-production robot drive module.

Customers and deployments

• Installed Grill X Units - more than 200 installed GRILL X units - 2025-11-07 - commercial kitchen automation - Beyond Honeycomb was reported to have more than 200 installed GRILL X cooking-robot units. - source posture:…
• Customer Count - more than 100 customers - 2025-11-07 - commercial kitchen automation - Beyond Honeycomb was reported to have passed 100 customers for its GRILL X cooking-robot business. - source posture: Third Party Re…
• Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2023-07-25 - Andaz Seoul Gangnam uses Beyond Honeycomb AI Chef Grill Robot - source posture: Third Party Reported
• Robot Restaurant Site - 1 AI Chef robot restaurant - 2022-09-27 - Singularity restaurant - restaurant cooking automation - Beyond Honeycomb opened Singularity in Pangyo Techno Valley, a restaurant where AI Chef robots w…