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Funding and backers

Total raised
$15M
1 round on record
Latest round
$15M
Seed · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
37
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Plug and Play, Global Brain
The money's age
Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 29 First role in Japan Robotics Deployment / Research Engineer Leading AI and Robotics Company Dec 17, 2025 Recognition RLWRLD Wins Foundation Models Category at Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards · The Manila Times Apr 15, 2025 Raised a round Seed $15M · TechCrunch Aug 2024 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 0.04%
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Apr 2025 $15M — TechCrunch
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How RLWRLD hires

Truth index
C 64/100
Ghost roles
60%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

RLWRLD scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 37 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 60% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

RLWRLD is a physical AI startup that develops robotics foundation models for dexterous, five-finger robot hand manipulation, with its US headquarters in San Francisco and most of its team in Seoul, South Korea. It trains its RLDX model family on motion-capture and factory data collected with manufacturing, logistics and service companies, deploys robots at industrial sites in Japan through a Tokyo office, and raised a seed round of about 60 billion won from venture investors and large corporations. It hires research scientists and engineers, robotics deployment and software engineers, hardware and procurement staff, product managers and interns.

News

News noteノート 21 days ago
KDDI와 RLWRLD, 로손 상품 진열 로봇 실증의 핵심morning_tech_jp
결론: 이것은 '로봇 점원'보다는 현장 작업을 AI에게 가르치는 실험입니다선생님: 이번 뉴스에서 우선 파악해야 할 점은, KDDI와 한국발 피지컬 AI 기업 RLWRLD가 편의점 등 소매 및 물류 현장 작업을 대상으로 로봇 기반 모델의 연구 개발을 진행하고 있다는 점입니다. 경제산업성과 NEDO가 실시하는 GENIAC 프로젝트에도 채택되었으며, KDDI 본사 내의 '로손 S KDDI 다카나와 본사점'을 중심으로 실제 점포 업무 데이터를 사용한 실증이 진
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News noteノート 21 days ago
KDDI and RLWRLD: The Core of the Lawson Stocking Robot Demonstrationmorning_tech_jp
Conclusion: This is an experiment in teaching AI how to perform on-site tasks, rather than just creating a 'robot clerk'.Teacher: The first point to grasp from this news is that KDDI and the South Korean physical AI company RLWRLD are advancing research a
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News Robotics & Automation News 23 days ago
RLWRLD outlines 'deployment-first' physical AI strategy for industrial humanoids
RLWRLD outlines its deployment-first physical AI strategy at Humanoids Summit Seoul, focusing on robotic dexterity, industrial data and real-world deployment.
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News The Korea Times 25 days ago
RLWRLD, CJ Logistics expand partnership to build smarter warehouse robots
Tech firm RLWRLD and supply chain giant CJ Logistics are joining forces to build smarter warehouse robots capable of handling the messy realities o...
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News YahooFinance 4 months ago
RLWRLD Launches DexBench Initiative to Define Next-Generation Industry Standards for Humanoid AI in Collaboration with NVIDIA
RLWRLD (CEO: Junghee Ryu), a physical AI company, announced today a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop next-generation industry standards for humanoid robot AI. RLWRLD will focus on three pillars: DexBench, a universal benchmark for evaluating dexterity
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
RLWRLD Launches DexBench Initiative to Define Next-Generation Industry Standards for Humanoid AI in Collaboration with NVIDIA
/PRNewswire/ -- RLWRLD (CEO: Junghee Ryu), a physical AI company, announced today a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop next-generation industry standards for...
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Award The Manila Times 10 months ago
RLWRLD Wins Foundation Models Category at Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards
The Physical AI startup was recognized by judges from NVIDIA, OpenAI, and leading venture firms for its robotics foundation model already being deployed in early industrial use cases.
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Award YahooFinance 10 months ago
RLWRLD Wins Foundation Models Category at Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards
The Physical AI startup was recognized by judges from NVIDIA, OpenAI, and leading venture firms for its robotics foundation model already being deployed in early industrial use cases. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RLWRLD, a Phys
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
RLWRLD: $15 Million (Seed) Closed To Build GPTs For Robots
RLWRLD, a Physical AI company building robotics foundation models, announced a $15 million seed round backed by an alliance of industrial leaders from Korea and Japan.
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at RLWRLD over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
91
Postings analysed
37
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python46%
C++24%
JavaScript3%
SQL3%
Frameworks & libraries
ROS22%
PyTorch19%
PoC Library16%
ROS216%
Cloud & platforms
Linux24%
AWS8%
Grafana5%
RTOS5%
AI & ML
VLM19%
ChatGPT5%
Claude5%
LLM5%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$220k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $220k $220k
Highest paying role [US] Forward Deployed Engineer $220k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
37
1 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
18% ▼
Early Careers
18% ▼
AI/ML
12% ▼
Backend
6% ▼
Robotics
6% ▼
Product
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Seoul Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
3
Busiest office
Seoul
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Seoul South Korea
Regional office
33 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 42% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Robotics, AI/ML, Early Careers
서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 415 서울 오피스
seen since Jul 2025 job postings
Chiyoda Japan
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
EGG Office, 10F, Shin-Marunouchi Building, 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6510, Japan
seen since Jul 2026 company site

Jobs

In office • Full-Time
Computer Vision
LLM
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
Chips/EDA
PoC Library
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≈ $68k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
VLM
PyTorch
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
ROS2
Teleoperation
Imitation Learning
Chips/EDA
PoC Library
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In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
JAX
VLM
Transformers
PyTorch
Vision-Language-Action
World Models
Physical AI
Robotics
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
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In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
VLM
PyTorch
Hugging Face
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Robotics
LeRobot
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In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
JavaScript
PHP
Elixir
Django
PHP
Laravel
Elixir
Phoenix LiveView
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Physical AI
DevOps
Twelve-Factor App
Linux
Robotics
Teleoperation
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≈ $68k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
C++
Reinforcement Learning
VLM
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
Game Dev
Behavior Tree
Robotics
ROS
ROS2
Gazebo
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Localization
Motion Planning
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
JAX
VLM
PyTorch
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
Machine Learning
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Apply
≈ $67k – $192k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Seoul
C++
Vision-Language-Action
Physical AI
DevOps
RTOS
Git
Linux
Robotics
ROS
Inverse Kinematics
Teleoperation
Imitation Learning
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$180k – $220k per year • Equity • In office • 2+ years exp
Fine-tuning
Vision-Language-Action
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≈ $74k – $209k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Seoul
Physical AI
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≈ $74k – $209k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Seoul
Physical AI
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≈ $67k – $189k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
C++
Physical AI
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
Robotics
ROS2
Model Predictive Control
Sim-to-Real
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Financials

Total raised
$15M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2025 $15M Details