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FRIDAY

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About FRIDAY

FRIDAY is Holiday Robotics' wheeled humanoid for repetitive industrial work. The robot concentrates 40 of its 64 degrees of freedom in its two hands, combining dexterous manipulation with tactile sensing and force-aware control. Back-drivable arm and hand joints support compliant contact, while cameras and lidar provide surrounding perception. Hot-swappable batteries are designed to support extended operation across shifts.

Holiday's Vision-Language-Skill architecture separates interpreting a task from selecting and executing reusable skills. Holiday Sim provides simulation, Holiday Lab develops and improves skills, and OASys connects the system to factory operation. The company is working through private proofs of concept with industrial partners, focusing on automotive, semiconductor and logistics environments. FRIDAY remains part of an ongoing programme to improve manufacturing readiness and field deployment.

27 AUG 2024

Holiday Robotics raises KRW 17.5B seed round for humanoid development

Operations

  • Production Capacity

    100 units/year production system in 2026 - 2026-07-13 - manufacturing sites - Holiday Robotics said it is preparing a 100-unit annual FRIDAY production system in 2026 as part of H2 2026 commercialization planning.

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  • Production Capacity

    1,000 units/year capacity target in 2027 - 2026-07-13 - manufacturing sites - Holiday Robotics said it plans to secure 1,000 units/year annual FRIDAY production capacity in 2027 to expand humanoid supply across manufacturing.

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Research

  • FRIDAY ROS2 robot descriptions and control interfaces

    Research Publication - Holiday Robotics publishes FRIDAY ROS2 interfaces, URDF/MJCF models, visualization, keyboard teleoperation and manipulation examples. The source separately documents joint-space presets, Cartesian commands and topic recording for the wheeled robot.

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Context

Market context

FRIDAY is Holiday Robotics' wheeled humanoid for advanced manufacturing, industrial manipulation and logistics workflows.

  • Target environment: Factories, manufacturing cells, industrial logistics areas and structured indoor workspaces.
  • Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, assembly, logistics handling, tactile interaction, simulation-supported training and AI-guided task execution.
  • Customer context: Manufacturers and automation partners evaluating wheeled humanoids for industrial labor tasks.
  • Deployment model: Precommercial industrial platform undergoing manufacturer-reported private proof-of-concept work with industrial partners.
  • Commercial maturity: Prototype evaluation and manufacturing-readiness development toward commercialization.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, autonomy, manufacturing readiness, safety, cost, integration and evidence on real production tasks.
  • Market position: Wheeled humanoid aimed at manufacturing work where manipulation and uptime matter more than biped locomotion.
  • Adjacent products: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agibot Yuanzheng A2-W, MenteeBot

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