Holiday Robotics, a Seoul company founded in 2024, raised about $105 million in Series A funding to scale FRIDAY, its wheeled industrial humanoid, according to The Robot Report and Korean coverage of a roughly 155 billion won round. The company positions FRIDAY for repetitive factory work rather than bipedal spectacle demos.
FRIDAY combines a wheel base with a dexterous upper body, hot-swappable batteries and what Holiday describes as safety-first hardware: low-inertia hands, back-drivable joints and 360-degree sensing. The firm says 64 degrees of freedom sit on the platform, with 40 concentrated in the hands, and that it uses a vision-language-skill stack plus in-house simulation (Holiday Sim) before field work. Target settings named in coverage include automotive, semiconductor and logistics lines, with private proofs of concept underway.
Holiday Robotics is the manufacturer behind FRIDAY, listed here as an Announced wheeled humanoid platform. Read the piece as a funding-and-platform signal for industrial wheeled humanoids — closer to factory manipulation than to racing bipeds — until Holiday publishes sourced payload, cycle-time and list-price datasheets.
Dollar conversion of the won round varies slightly by outlet (~$103–105 million). “Largest Series A in Korea” is press and company framing. Customer names, unit volumes and a firm commercial ship date are not in the cited materials; treat PoCs as private until disclosed.