URobotics (유로보틱스), a Seoul company that makes autonomous-mobility technology for humanoid and quadruped robots, has raised a Series A of about 40 billion Korean won, according to Edaily (Shin Yeong-bin, 4 November 2026). The round was co-led by Kiwoom Investment and K2 Investment Partners. Korean outlets give only the won figure. The English-language aggregators convert it differently: Dealroom’s headline says $29.9 million, its body text says $33.5 million, and Fundz says $30 million. Lens could not verify an exchange rate for 4–6 November and does not say which dollar figure is right. The company has not disclosed a valuation; Edaily reports that the company said the round values it at more than 10 times its seed-round valuation.

The round

Edaily lists nine further investors in Korean, which Dealroom renders in English as Hyundai Motor Group’s Zer01ne, Seoul Investment Partners, Schmidt, Nvestor, Aju IB Investment, TS Investment, Kingo Investment Partners, Ulmus Investment and Novosec Investment; the Korean spellings in Edaily are the safer reference. According to Edaily, the company said the money will go to advancing its core technology, hiring specialists, and strengthening product supply and on-site response, and Dealroom adds overseas expansion. Edaily also says the company plans to expand into shipbuilding and steel and into defense work such as unmanned reconnaissance and exploration of hazardous areas. No source Lens read states a total raised.

What URobotics builds

URobotics works on autonomous mobility for robots, including whole-body motion and balance control. Its core product, called 이동킷 in Korean and rendered E-DONG-KIT by Dealroom and Fundz, is a modular kit that adds autonomous mobility to humanoid and quadruped robots and is not tied to one maker’s hardware, according to Edaily and Dealroom. Edaily (11 November) says the kit combines sensors, a computing unit and autonomous-mobility software.

The company was founded in 2024 (August 2024, according to Dealsite) as a spin-out from the Future City Robotics Lab (미래도시로봇연구실) at KAIST. Edaily says it was founded by three researchers from the lab of KAIST professor Myung Hyun and does not name them. The chief executive is Yoo Byung-ho (유병호). The company website gives a Seoul address in Gangnam-gu. Edaily says headcount grew from about 10 at the start of 2026 to 20–25, and that the company was selected for Samsung Electronics’ C Lab Outside 2026 start-up program.

What the chief executive said

Paraphrasing Edaily’s Korean text, which Lens read through a machine translation: Yoo said that since the seed round the company has concentrated on solving customers’ problems on site and linking its technology to contracts and revenue, and that it aims to expand supply of field-proven solutions and grow into a global physical AI company serving both private industry and defense.

Earlier funding

HelloT (Choi Jae-gyu, 4 September 2025) reported a seed of more than 3 billion won, plus a separate 1.5 billion won in equity under Korea’s TIPS deep-tech program, from Seoul Investment Partners, Smilegate Investment and Schmidt. Dealsite (Kim Gi-ryeong, 7 September 2026) reported before the announcement that the Series A was being discussed at up to 40 billion won; that the initial ask was a 200 billion won pre-money valuation, later discussed at about 150 billion won after some investors balked at the price; and that the seed valuation was about 50 billion won, a figure the company has not confirmed. Lens could not reconcile the company’s “more than 10 times” statement with Dealsite’s figures, and no final valuation has been published. The seed is dated March 2025 by Edaily and Startup Recipe and September 2025 by HelloT and Dealsite.

Company claims

The following come from the company as reported by Edaily and have not been independently verified. URobotics says it has turned its technology into contracts and revenue in autonomous inspection at construction and energy sites, with confirmed contracts above 1 billion won and revenue this year from defense and industrial-site work, the amount undisclosed. It names no customers, only unnamed domestic defense companies as research partners. HelloT reported earlier results in two categories (LiDAR and Vision) at the HILTI SLAM Challenge, an ICRA 2023 side event, and first place at the ICRA 2023 Quadruped Robot Challenge. Dealsite reported in September 2026 that the company then had no paid supply deals or commercial customers and that its sensor-and-compute kit was still in development; the later Edaily statements are the company’s own.

Sources and notes

Sources read: Edaily (Shin Yeong-bin, 4 and 11 November 2026), Startup Recipe (7 November), Dealsite (7 September), HelloT (4 September 2025), Dealroom (6 November), a Fundz record (6 November) and the company website urobotics.ai, whose news list carries a headline dated 5 November 2026 but whose item text Lens could not retrieve. The Korean articles were read through an automated summary that supplies its own English wording, so the translated passages here are paraphrases that a Korean reader should check. Wowtale, which Dealroom credits, returned HTTP 403 and THE VC was blocked; Lens did not find the company’s press release or coverage in the Korea Herald, Korea JoongAng Daily, Chosun, Maeil, Platum or Venture Square. Sources date the announcement 4 November (Edaily), 5 November (the company website and Dealroom’s text) and 6 November (Fundz and Dealroom’s page). Fundz gives the headquarters as Daejeon, while the company website gives Seoul. Fundz and Tracxn also carry a separate record named Eurobotics (eurobotics.group) that appears to be a different company and is not used here; some English glosses of the Korean name also read Eurobotics. English renderings of the founding lab differ (Urban Robotics Lab in Dealroom, Future City Robotics Lab elsewhere).

Image: A Legged Squad Support System robot prototype in woodland. Photo: Tactical Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; dated 2012 in the file’s metadata; cropped. Stand-in image of a different legged robot; it does not show URobotics or its kit.