Robros
Robros develops humanoid robots for industrial, logistics and applied-AI environments. The South Korean company IGRIS-C platform is positioned as a production-ready humanoid for research, data collection and early deployment in real work settings.
Market context
Bridges research and early industrial deployment with a developer-focused humanoid platform (IGRIS-C). Strong research and platform commercialization positioning rather than mass deployment; relevant for labs, universities, and pilot industrial environments.
Facts
- Website: https://robros.co.kr
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
- Founded: 2020
- Segment: humanoid robotics
- Known funding rounds: 2
Investors
- Stick Ventures - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-07-21 - latest 2025-07-11
- HB Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-11
- Lotte Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-11
- GS Retail - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-07-21
- Primer Sazze Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-07-21
- STIC Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-07-21
Compact humanoid and dexterous hand developer
Robros develops compact humanoid robots and tendon-driven dexterous hands for service, research and embodied AI applications.
- Target environment: Research labs, service robot settings, humanoid development environments and dexterous manipulation testbeds.
- Deployment model: Humanoid and robotic hand product development with early public platform releases.
- Customer context: Robotics researchers, humanoid developers, service robot users and manipulation teams.
- Workflow context: Humanoid locomotion, human-robot interaction, dexterous hand control, research experiments and embodied AI development.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid developer with compact robot and dexterous-hand platforms. Scaling depends on manipulation performance, developer adoption, safety, cost, and sustained deployments beyond protot…
- Market position: Korean humanoid company focused on compact service robots and dexterous hand hardware.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on reliability, manipulation performance, developer adoption, safety, cost and movement from prototypes to sustained deployments.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes compact humanoids, tendon-driven robotic hands, Korean humanoid startups and service robots.
- Source confidence: low
Events
- 2025-10-02 - Award - Robros wins the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2025 static obstacle avoidance competition with IGRIS-C - Robros won first place in the adult-size static obstacle avoidance category at IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2025 with IGRIS-C. The same outlet framed the robot as a general-purpose research platform bridging AI experimentation and industrial proof-of-concept work. Robr…
- 2025-09-26 - Deployment - Robros delivers the first IGRIS-C unit to Robotable - Robros announced that the first IGRIS-C unit had been delivered to its first customer, Robotable. The company said the delivered robot would be exhibited at Gyeongnam Robot Land, extending visibility beyond lab and trade-show settings into a live public deplo…
- 2025-07-11 - Funding - Robros lands KRW 4 billion pre-A financing to scale IGRIS-C production - Robros announced a KRW 4 billion pre-A round, taking cumulative funding beyond KRW 6 billion. Stick Ventures led with KRW 2 billion, while HB Investment and Lotte Ventures each invested KRW 1 billion, matching the breakdown in the linked article. Robros said…
- 2025-07-01 - Product Launch - Robros opens pre-orders for the IGRIS-C humanoid robot - Robros began taking pre-orders for the IGRIS-C, pricing the humanoid at KRW 150 million with delivery targeted for autumn 2025. The linked July 2025 write-up described the robot as a compact Korean humanoid with 31 degrees of freedom, five-finger hands, and a…
- 2025-04-11 - Partnership - Robros joins the K-Humanoid Alliance launch - Robros participated in the launch event for the K-Humanoid Alliance hosted by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The company exhibited its IGRIS humanoid as part of the ecosystem push around domestic humanoid commercialization and industria…
- 2025-02-19 - Product Launch - Robros unveils its first humanoid robot IGRIS - Robros publicly unveiled its first humanoid robot, IGRIS, at the 2025 Korean Robotics Society conference in Pyeongchang. The company described the system as an AI-enabled humanoid designed for service environments such as hotels, restaurants, and cafés. Robro…
- 2023-07-21 - Funding - Robros closes KRW 1.6 billion seed financing as its first institutional round - Robros closed KRW 1.6 billion in seed financing in a round framed as the company's first institutional raise in the linked July 2023 ZDNet piece. Stick Ventures, Primer Sazze Partners, and GS Retail were named as participants alongside the disclosed amount. R…
Team
- Roh Seung-jun - Chief Executive Officer - Current operating leader for ROBROS' industrial humanoid platform and its first-customer delivery push.
- Ryan Ro - CEO & Founder
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