WIRobotics raises $68M after scaling wearable robots

WIRobotics has raised KRW 95 billion, about $68 million, in Series B funding as it expands from commercial wearable robotics into humanoid development.

The South Korean company said the round was led by JB Investment, with participation from InterVest, Hana Ventures, Smilegate Investment, SBVA, NH Investment & Securities, Company K Partners, GU Investment and FuturePlay. The financing follows a KRW 13 billion Series A in March 2024.

The Company

WIRobotics was founded in 2021 by Yongjae Kim and Yeonbaek Lee after earlier work in Samsung’s robotics development organisation. Its first commercial product was WIM, a wearable walking-assist robot designed to support human movement rather than replace it.

WIM is not a humanoid, but it has placed powered robotic hardware on thousands of people and exposed the company to real human gait, assisted movement, body variation and user-facing product constraints before ALLEX entered the picture.

The Products

WIM has passed 3,000 cumulative units sold and expanded into Europe, China, Türkiye and Japan. Revenue grew from KRW 560 million in 2023 to KRW 1.3 billion in 2024 and KRW 2.79 billion (~$1.9M) in 2025, with first-quarter 2026 revenue already exceeding the company’s full-year 2024 revenue.

ALLEX is the move into humanoids. WIRobotics describes the platform around force sensing, compliant interaction and contact-rich movement, with whole-body responsiveness across arms, fingers and waist. The company has disclosed a 15 degree-of-freedom compliant hand, low-friction backdrivable arms and gravity compensation across the upper body.

WIRobotics has also framed ALLEX as a modular platform rather than only a single finished humanoid. The company has described plans to supply arms, hands, body and leader systems individually or in combination, which makes the platform more relevant to research groups and model developers working on manipulation before full humanoid commercialization. That gives the ALLEX push a more practical route than waiting for a complete robot product to mature all at once.

Source: WIRobotics ALLEX

The External Reference

When ALLEX was unveiled in 2025, WIRobotics said it had formed a strategic partnership with RLWRLD to develop the robot’s intelligence layer. WIRobotics provides the compliant humanoid hardware, while RLWRLD works on the physical-AI model layer needed to make that hardware useful for dexterous manipulation.

In May 2026, RLWRLD released RLDX-1, a dexterous manipulation model evaluated on tasks run with the ALLEX humanoid platform. RLWRLD’s technical report describes ALLEX as an upper-body humanoid with high degree-of-freedom hands, making it suitable for testing human-like functional manipulation. The company reported an 86.8 percent success rate for RLDX-1 on ALLEX tasks, compared with roughly 40 percent for Physical Intelligence’s pi0.5 and NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.6 under RLWRLD’s own evaluation setup.

The result belongs to RLWRLD’s model and benchmark design, not to WIRobotics alone. For WIRobotics, the relevant point is narrower but useful: It is being used as the embodiment layer for external model development, which fits WIRobotics’ approach of building a humanoid platform around force sensing, compliant hands, backdrivable arms and whole-body responsiveness.

The Round

The Series B will support wearable robotics expansion, ALLEX development, hiring and overseas growth. WIRobotics said it plans to supply a research-oriented Mobile ALLEX platform this year and is targeting initial commercialization and mass-production readiness in late 2027.

The company was also selected for the 2026 Physical AI Fellowship backed by AWS, NVIDIA and MassRobotics, giving it access to AWS credits, NVIDIA’s physical AI stack and MassRobotics’ ecosystem support.

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