T-Robotics
About
About T-Robotics
T-Robotics’ semiconductor and display systems move wafers or glass substrates through vacuum-processing equipment. Its vacuum-transfer robots combine articulated arms, linear stages, controllers and sealed mechanisms designed for low-particle operation inside process chambers. The same engineering base extends into atmospheric handling and factory logistics, where the company supplies AGVs and AMRs for material movement between production stages.
Customers integrate the robots into larger fabrication or battery-manufacturing lines, with T-Robotics configuring the mechanism, controller and interface around the tool or facility. The company has deployed AMRs in US electric-vehicle battery plants and also maintains a separate rehabilitation and wearable-robot business. This gives the KOSDAQ-listed manufacturer positions in both high-precision equipment handling and human-assistance systems, while its core production model remains the engineering and manufacture of specialist robotic hardware.
Deployments
- Operating use
2026-09-23 - TR-WORKS is undergoing field testing on the KAIROS Physical AI dark-factory demonstration platform; initial supply is expected in 2027. - TR-WORKS KAIROS demonstration platform
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Ford Energy Battery LLC
Outbound - Robotics Equipment - T-Robotics received a Ford Energy Battery purchase order for AGV Retool equipment in June 2026
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Funding
- 2024-12-17 - Seed - $5.4M - T-Robotics secures $5.4M seed funding for natural-language robot programming
T-Robotics secured $5.4 million in seed funding to develop natural-language programming for industrial robots. - source: businesswire.com
Investors
- Berkeley SkyDeck - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-17
- Emergent Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-17
- Engine Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-17
- Raisewell - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-17
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-21 - Regulatory - T-Robotics reports US patent registration for glass-substrate transfer robot
The technology applies precision-control and vacuum-transfer experience developed for 8.6-generation OLED substrate-handling robots. The company is also pursuing related patent applications in China and Taiwan. The development supports planned entry into semiconductor glass-substrate handling and advanced packaging.
Source - 2026-10-16 - Award - T-Robotics joins KRW 10.2B optical-module autonomous-manufacturing R&D programme
Participants include T-Robotics, a large Korean enterprise and KAIST; the company-specific allocation is not disclosed. The programme combines robot automation with process control, equipment-state monitoring and fault prediction. The project falls under the machinery-and-equipment technology development programme supported by the industry ministry and KEIT.
Source - 2026-09-29 - Award - T-Robotics leads KRW4.5B manufacturing-humanoid R&D programme
The programme includes approximately KRW4.5 billion of government funding and is administered through KEIT. KAIST and a major Korean display manufacturer are participating in the project. TR-WORKS is planned for progressive validation and application in core manufacturing processes over five years.
Source - 2026-09-18 - Market Signal - T-Robotics plans U.S. production base as vacuum-robot and ESS orders grow
The company is evaluating multiple U.S. regions, including factory-site and leasing options, alongside its existing Silicon Valley and Texas entities. T-Robotics says cumulative Ford Energy ESS AMR and automation orders since May total about KRW19B, with an additional roughly $2.63M system order recently disclosed. The planned base is intended to improve delivery, technical support, FCC and regulatory response, and supply-chain resilience in North America.
Source - 2026-09-01 - Commercial Order - T-Robotics wins $2.63M Ford Energy Battery automation order
The scope covers equipment, installation, commissioning and control-system development and integration. Together with a May autonomous-mobile-robot contract, T-Robotics says Ford ESS-related orders total about KRW 19 billion.
Source - 2026-07-27 - Product Launch - T-Robotics introduces high-temperature double-parallel-link vacuum robot arm
The double-parallel-link arm supports payloads up to 240 kilograms and operating temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius. It is designed to transfer glass substrates and AI-semiconductor process material in high-vacuum environments. T-Robotics is developing related mass-production equipment around the high-temperature vacuum-handling architecture.
Source - 2026-07-08 - Contract Award - T-Robotics selected for radioactive-waste facility unmanning project
The project is run under Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement's 2026 social-problem-solving robot demonstration program. The demonstration site is KORAD's radioactive-waste disposal facility in Gyeongju. T-Robotics supplies unmanned forklifts, AMRs and palletising robots for heavy radioactive-waste logistics.
Source - 2024-12-17 - Funding - T-Robotics secures $5.4M seed funding for natural-language robot programming
Emergent Ventures and Engine Ventures co-led the round, with Berkeley SkyDeck and Raisewell participating. T-Robotics focused the funding on skill models that let users program industrial robots without code. The event adds an early financing milestone for a physical-AI software layer serving factory robots.
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Relations
Relationships
- NVIDIA
AI Accelerator Ecosystem Partner - T-Robotics deploys solutions with the Universal Robots AI Accelerator technical stack.
- Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD)
Radioactive Waste Facility Demonstration Site - KORAD provides the radioactive-waste disposal facility site for the selected multi-robot unmanning demonstration.
- Ford Energy Battery
Ess Production Automation Supplier - T-Robotics received an additional KRW 3.6 billion order for U.S. ESS production automation equipment, commissioning and control integration.
- KAIST
Partner - T-Robotics and KAIST participate in a government-funded optical-module curing and predictive-maintenance R&D consortium through 2029.
- Clobot
Radioactive Waste Robotics Demonstration Consortium - T-Robotics and Clobot are members of the selected radioactive-waste facility unmanning demonstration consortium.
Context
Comparable profiles
- KPC Electronics
comparable profile - Factory Material Transport AMR
- Quasi Robotics
comparable profile - Factory Material Transport AMR
- Filics
comparable profile - Factory Material Transport AMR
- Ati Robotics
comparable profile - Factory Material Transport AMR
- Preferred Robotics
comparable profile - Factory Material Transport AMR
Shared workflows
- TetraBOT
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- Keybotic
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- ZhiYou Wujie
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- Radian Robotics
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- RoBoa
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- QITEN Robotics
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
- Presien
workflow adjacency - Hazardous Industrial Robotics
Context tags
- Factory material transport AMR - Peer Group - July 2026 project source identifies AMRs and unmanned forklifts for facility logistics.
- Hazardous-environment robotics workflow - Workflow - July 2026 project source covers radioactive-waste facility unmanning.
- AGV/AMR intralogistics builder - Stack Layer - Official profile and July 2026 project source identify AGV/AMR systems.
Commercial
- T-Robotics wins $2.63M Ford Energy Battery automation order
2026-09-01 · Order / contract · T-Robotics received an additional KRW 3.6 billion order for automation equipment and controls supporting Ford Energy Battery energy-storage-system production in the United States.
Source - T-Robotics selected for radioactive-waste facility unmanning project
2026-07-08 · Order / contract · T-Robotics joined a selected consortium for a Korean radioactive-waste facility robot-unmanning demonstration.
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