Holiday Robotics · industrial humanoid
FRIDAY
A 1.76 m wheeled factory humanoid with 64 DOF, palm-wide touch sensing and hot-swappable batteries for round-the-clock work. Speed is from a secondary source.
- Price
- —Target price about KRW 100 million per unit (not a list price).
- Height
- 176 cmTaller than 82%
- Weight
- 115 kgHeavier than 88%
- Payload
- 20 kgCarries more than 72%
- Speed
- 6.8 km/hFaster than 74%
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: No order, pilot or waitlist path; FRIDAY product page offers only a general contact link (commercialisation planned H2 2026).
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Why it matters
Raised one of Korea's largest early-stage startup rounds (about $105 million Series A, 2026).
Real-world use
Commercialisation targeted for the second half of 2026, with 100 units a year planned.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2025
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Holiday RoboticsCompany · founded 2024 · Seoul, South KoreaSeed 17.5 billion won (Aug 2024); Series A 155 billion won (about $105M, Jul 2026) from IMM, SL Investment, KB, Goodwater, KDB, IBK and others.
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
FRIDAY is taller than 82% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
FRIDAY is heavier than 88% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
FRIDAY is faster than 74% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
FRIDAY carries more than 72% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
FRIDAY has more joints than 94% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for FRIDAY and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention FRIDAY gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 64 joints
- Actuators & motors
- 64 DoF total, 40 of them in the hands; fully back-drivable arm and hand joints.
- Hands
- Lightweight, low-inertia hands with tactile sensing and force-aware control.
- Sensors & vision
- 360-degree perception from multiple cameras and LiDAR.
- Battery & power
- Hot-swappable battery to cover a full shift.
- AI & software
- Vision-language-skill (VLS) approach; Holiday Sim for simulation, Holiday Lab for skill creation, OASys for deployment.
- Other details
- Wheeled base; 176 cm, 115 kg; target price about 100 million won.
From the maker
FRIDAY is the only humanoid from Holiday Robotics in the atlas.
Watch FRIDAY
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedTarget price about KRW 100 million per unit (not a list price).
- How to get one
- Not for saleNo order, pilot or waitlist path; FRIDAY product page offers only a general contact link (commercialisation planned H2 2026).
- Built
- Plan: 100 units in 2026, 1,000 in 2027, capacity for 10,000+ a year later (company).
- Where it is sold or used
- South Korea
- Customers and pilots
- Private proofs of concept with unnamed automotive, semiconductor and logistics companies.
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Holiday Robotics raises $105M Series A
Funds go to commercialising FRIDAY in the second half of 2026.
The Robot Report - Record 155 billion won Series A for Korean humanoid maker
Largest Series A by a Korean startup; investors include IMM, SL Investment, KDB and IBK.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useFRIDAYHoliday Robotics |  AI WorkerROBOTISSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useSpaceo ProMuks RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |  CASBOT W1CASBOT (Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology)Same job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025 | 2025-05-15 | 2025-03-06 | 2025-07-26 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Pilot use | Commercial |
| Height | 176 cm | 162 cm | 210 cm | 210 cm |
| Weight | 115 kg | 90 kg | 60 kg | 260 kg |
| Joints | 64 | 25 | 20 | 20 |
| Speed | 6.8 km/h | 5.4 km/h | 5.4 km/h | 4.3 km/h |
| Payload | 20 kg | 10 kg | 5 kg | 10 kg |
| Battery | — | 6 h | 4 h | 5 h |
| Price | — | $69,000 | — | — |
Sources
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