Holiday Robotics
Holiday Robotics develops FRIDAY, a wheeled humanoid for repetitive manufacturing work in automotive, semiconductor and logistics sites. Its July 2026 KRW155B Series A supports H2 2026 commercialization and production scale-up.
Market context
Holiday Robotics is part of South Korea's emerging humanoid robotics push, with a pragmatic wheeled-base approach aimed at factory automation and a FRIDAY platform focused on dexterous manipulation. FRIDAY
Facts
- Website: https://holiday-robotics.com/
- HQ: Seoul, South Korea
- Founded: 2024
- Segment: humanoid robotics
- Known funding rounds: 3
Investors
- Atinum Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-08-27 - latest 2026-07-13
- Atinum Capital Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Bon Angels Venture Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Dasung Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Goodwater Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- IMM Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Industrial Bank of Korea - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-13
- Intervest - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- KB Investment - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Korea Development Bank - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Premier Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- SJ Investment Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- SL Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Spring Camp - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Stone Bridge Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Ulmus Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-13
- Hyundai Motor ZER01NE - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-08-27
- InterVest - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-27
- SpringCamp - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-27
- Stonebridge Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-27
Wheeled humanoid robot developer
Holiday Robotics develops FRIDAY, a dexterous wheeled humanoid robot for manipulation-heavy tasks in research, logistics and industrial settings.
- Target environment: Research labs, logistics sites, industrial workspaces, human-interactive environments and humanoid development programs.
- Deployment model: Humanoid robot product development with simulation tools and developer-facing robotics systems.
- Customer context: Research teams, logistics operators, industrial users, humanoid developers and early adopters of dexterous mobile manipulation.
- Workflow context: Dexterous manipulation, teleoperation, mobile service work, logistics assistance, simulation and embodied AI development.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid company with public FRIDAY product information. Scaling depends on hand performance, mobile-base reliability, developer adoption, service-task fit, and cost for research or logi…
- Market position: Korean wheeled humanoid developer focused on dexterity and mobile manipulation rather than bipedal locomotion.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on hand performance, task reliability, mobile-base stability, safety, runtime, cost and developer adoption.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes wheeled humanoids, dexterous mobile manipulators, service humanoids and humanoid simulation tools.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-07-13 - Funding - Holiday Robotics raises KRW155B Series A for FRIDAY manufacturing humanoids - The round was described as Korea's largest domestic startup Series A and the largest single round for a domestic humanoid company. Existing investors Stone Bridge Ventures, Atinum Investment, Intervest and Spring Camp returned alongside new financial and vent…
- 2025-08-01 - Partnership - Holiday Robotics signs strategic MOU with Endotlight for humanoid robot AI learning - Holiday Robotics signed a strategic MOU with Endotlight to advance humanoid robot learning environments and simulation technologies. The collaboration focuses on improving robot AI learning through synthetic 3D data generation and simulation workflows. The pa…
- 2025-04-10 - Market Signal - Holiday Robotics joins South Korea's K-Humanoid Alliance - Holiday Robotics was listed among companies participating in South Korea's K-Humanoid Alliance. The alliance was launched to support domestic humanoid robotics development, including a robot AI foundation model target by 2028. Participation places Holiday Rob…
- 2024-08-27 - Funding - Holiday Robotics raises KRW17.5B seed funding for manufacturing humanoids - Holiday Robotics raised KRW17.5 billion in seed funding from investors including Stonebridge Ventures, SpringCamp, Atinum Investment, InterVest and Hyundai Motor ZER01NE. The company was founded in April 2024 by Ki-young Song and was developing humanoid robot…
- 2024-08-27 - Funding - Holiday Robotics Secures KRW 17.5 Billion in Seed Funding - • Holiday Robotics secured KRW 17.5 billion in seed funding from investors including Stonebridge Ventures, SpringCamp, Atinum Investment, Intervest, and Hyundai Motor's ZER01NE. • The company, founded in April 2024 by Ki-young Song, is developing humanoid rob…
Team
- Kiyoung Song - Founder & CEO
Context tags
- Humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - Holiday Robotics builds humanoid robots for service and public interaction.
- Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer - Holiday Robotics builds complete humanoid robot systems.
- Humanoid builders - Peer Group - Holiday Robotics develops full-size humanoid robot platforms.
- Humanoid social expression - Capability - Holiday robots have expressive social interaction capability.
- Public service humanoid interaction - Workflow - Holiday robots engage in public-facing service and customer interaction.
- Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Holiday Robotics robots demonstrate bipedal locomotion.
- Service and public venues - Customer Environment - Holiday robots are positioned for service and public venues.
Customers and deployments
- Friday 2027 Annual Capacity Target - 1,000 units/year capacity target in 2027 - 2026-07-13 - manufacturing sites - Holiday Robotics said it plans to secure 1,000 units/year annual FRIDAY production capacity in 2027 to e…
- Friday 2026 Annual Capacity Target - 100 units/year production system in 2026 - 2026-07-13 - manufacturing sites - Holiday Robotics said it is preparing a 100-unit annual FRIDAY production system in 2026 as part of H2 2…
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