Holiday Robotics company profile
Holiday Robotics develops humanoid robots for logistics, research and human-interactive work. Its FRIDAY robot combines a wheeled base, dexterous hands, tactile sensing, autonomous control and teleoperation for real-world tasks that need mobile manipulation.
Facts
- Segment: Humanoid
- Country: South Korea
- Founded: 2024
- Website: https://holiday-robotics.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Supply chain relationships
- Context tags
- Articles
- Sources
Summary
Holiday Robotics develops humanoid robots for logistics, research and human-interactive work. Its FRIDAY robot combines a wheeled base, dexterous hands, tactile sensing, autonomous control and teleoperation for real-world tasks that need mobile manipulation.
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 Holiday Robotics develops dexterous wheeled humanoid platforms, robotic hands, simulation technology, and vision-language-skill AI systems for industrial automation.
Facts
- Website: https://holiday-robotics.com/
- HQ: Seoul, South Korea
- Founded: 2024
- Segment: Humanoid
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2024-08-27 - Seed - $13M - Holiday Robotics Secures KRW 17.5 Billion in Seed Funding - source: en.wowtale.net
Investors
- Atinum Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-27
- 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
- 2025-11-13 - Product Launch - Holiday Robotics unveils FRIDAY wheeled humanoid robot - Holiday Robotics unveiled FRIDAY, a wheeled humanoid robot platform.
- 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 an…
- 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.
- 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…
Team
- Kiyoung Song - Founder & CEO
Supply chain relationships
- Synthetic data / simulation technology partner - Strategic MOU with Endotlight on humanoid robot learning environments, synthetic 3D data generation and simulation-aligned AI learning (VentureSquare).
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.
Articles
- 2024-08-27 - Holiday Robotics raises KRW 17.5B seed round for humanoid development - The funding, about $13M at the time, is raised for humanoid robot development. - Korthos: /research/holiday-robotics-raises-krw-17-5b-…
Holiday Robotics canonical Korthos profile