Robros Receives Ministerial Commendation for Commercializing Industrial Humanoids After Surpassing Pilot Stage and Selling 18 Units

Robos humanoid robot company Robros announced on the 17th that it received a commendation from the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy at the '2026 M.AX Awards' held at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry's International Conference Hall on the 17th.

The commendation was based on the company moving beyond research and development and one-off pilot projects to achieve actual product production and sales results. Robros sold 18 industrial humanoid units.

Robros drew attention for advancing robots around tasks required in manufacturing sites and for accumulating on-site operating data.

The '2026 M.AX Awards' carries the meaning of Manufacturing AI Transformation and is tied to the M.AX Alliance promoted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The event highlights the achievements of companies and stakeholders that have contributed to AI transformation and industrial innovation in manufacturing.

Robros is a company that goes beyond demonstrating humanoid robots and directly handles production and supply to industrial and research sites. As of the end of August, cumulative production of its industrial AI humanoid 'IGRIS-C' stood at 36 units, while sales on the same basis reached 18 units. More recently, it supplied 9 units at once to a single customer.

Robros is pursuing a strategy of developing the core hardware, control technology and AI elements of its humanoid robots in-house, making it a full-stack model. The company is advancing the technology based on IGRIS-C. Its target tasks for further advancement are object recognition, grasping, Pick & Place and object transport, and its application areas are manufacturing and logistics sites.

Even after delivery, Robros directly participates in on-site deployment. The company supports initial installation and environment setup, and also provides training so that it can accumulate task data during customers' robot operations and use that data for learning. As a result, its business model is not limited to hardware sales, and it is pursuing a structure that links securing on-site data to improvements in AI and control technologies.

The development stage of industrial humanoids is moving beyond reproducing human motions at the laboratory or exhibition level to a stage where they can stably repeat fixed tasks at manufacturing sites. In this process, data from actual work environments is seen as an important factor that determines a robot's motion accuracy and task range. Early product supply and on-site operating experience are also considered possible factors that could determine commercialization competitiveness.

Robros plans to improve its AI and control technologies based on task data secured from IGRIS-C units supplied to universities, research institutions and industrial sites. Through this, it aims to enhance product completeness so that it can stably perform repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics sites. It also presented a goal of accelerating the commercialization of industrial humanoids.

Robros CEO No Seung-jun said he was pleased that efforts to develop products usable in industrial settings had been recognized. He added that the company will continue to advance its technologies and products so that it can contribute to South Korea's leap into the global top 3 in AI robotics and the global No. 1 in physical AI.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is pursuing the M.AX Alliance, a public-private cooperation framework to accelerate AI transformation in manufacturing sites. Under this framework, companies by industry and AI and robotics technology companies participate together to promote AI adoption in manufacturing and the spread of AI across manufacturing.

Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241709

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