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Banseog note · 2026-10-25
The controller company turning AI judgment into robot motion
Take-off — exporting robot controllers built in Daegu to Japan and the US
- The company says its team has more than 25 people. It is headquartered in Daegu (Samsung Creative Campus), with offices in Gyeongsan (May 2023) and Seoul (February 2024). It raised a pre-Series A round in December 2025.
- The company says its W-RC robot controller handles both AI compute and real-time control in 1ms cycles on a single NVIDIA Jetson, and has cut control-latency variation (jitter) from 358μs to 15μs or less.
- On October 6, 2026, at the 'AWS x NVIDIA AI Pitch Competition' in San Francisco, it reached the final six out of more than 100 applicants and took first place, winning USD 25,000 in AWS credits. In September it was named to the Asia-Pacific top 10 of the NVIDIA Inception Grand Challenge 2026.
Decisions within a year
- US expansion following its first export to Japan in 2025, in 2026 it signed a robot control software license and technical support contract with a US manufacturer. In June it set up a subsidiary, WIM Robotics Inc., in Delaware, and in July it obtained US FCC Part 15 (Class A) and Canadian ICES-003 compliance.
- M.AX specialist company designation: on August 5, 2026 it was designated a Manufacturing AI Transformation (M.AX) specialist company (equipment and robotics) by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT). The designation runs for two years, to August 4, 2028, and brings priority participation in government support programs plus sales-channel and promotion support.
- Expansion into agriculture in July 2026 it co-developed a smart-farm robot for greenhouse cucumbers with the Gyeongsangbuk-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services and is testing it in working greenhouses. The robot drives itself along narrow growing beds, identifies stems and leaves with a camera, and moves its arm along paths that avoid nearby plants to trim leaves.
People they will look for
- Robot control and firmware engineers — the work of fitting 1ms real-time control and EtherCAT-based controllers to robots from multiple manufacturers is expanding to customers in the US and Japan
- 3D vision and VLA (vision-language-action model) researchers — expanding into unstructured sites such as smart farms requires people who handle perception and motion planning together
- Technical managers (customer technical leads) — it needs people to manage the US license contract, the Delaware subsidiary and deployments for Korean manufacturing customers all at once
For hiring managers
Engineers who know both real-time control and robot AI are sought simultaneously by Korean humanoid startups and robotics units of large companies, and they are even scarcer in Daegu and Gyeongbuk. With a new US subsidiary and a government designation coming together, now is the time to secure core control engineers first.
For job seekers
Experience with ROS2- and EtherCAT-based robot control, or with coupling AI models to real-time control on Jetson, is what this company values most right now.
An analysis written from public sources. Sources: WIM company page (25+ team; offices; pre-Series A), Sportal Korea 2026-10-16 (jitter 358μs→15μs; Japan export; US license contract; Delaware subsidiary; FCC/ICES certification), WIM notice 2026-10-07 and Kyeongbuk Ilbo 2026-10-15 (1st place at AWS x NVIDIA pitch competition; final six; AWS credits), WIM notice 2026-08-05 (M.AX specialist designation), WIM notice 2026-07-21 (cucumber smart-farm robot).
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