PULOON Robotics

Founded in 1997, Pureun Robotics built a long track record in financial automation, transit automation, and specialized terminal systems.

In financial automation the company supplies ATM banknote recognition and dispensing modules, while in transit automation it manufactures subway gates and parking barriers, also running system-integration projects that use these modules, with public institutions and financial firms as core customers.

The company began developing collaborative robots in 2013 and in 2016 became the first in Korea to develop a 7-axis cobot and robot controller, later expanding its payload lineup to 5, 10, 15, 20 and 40 kg models including the Symphony 15 co-developed with Hyundai Wia.

In April 2026 an extraordinary shareholders' meeting approved a name change from Pureun Tech to Pureun Robotics, formalizing its shift toward becoming a cobot-centered robotics specialist.

The Symphony series has secured European CE certification and international functional-safety certification, and the company is broadening applications into manufacturing, logistics, food tech, and healthcare.

Through subsidiary DI Robotics, it is working with the dental colleges of Seoul National University and Yonsei University, Asan Medical Center, and the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials to commercialize a dental implant surgical-assist robot.

In the competitive landscape, larger domestic cobot players such as Rainbow Robotics and Doosan Robotics operate in the same space, and Pureun Robotics is pursuing a strategy of extending its mass-production design and quality-management capabilities, honed in financial and transit automation, into robot hardware supply.

Annual revenue moved from KRW 34.08 billion in 2022 to KRW 32.29 billion in 2023 and KRW 34.77 billion in 2024, before falling 32.5% to KRW 23.48 billion in 2025.

Operating profit improved from KRW 1.02 billion (3.0% margin) in 2022 to KRW 1.85 billion (5.7%) in 2023 and KRW 2.28 billion (6.6%) in 2024, then swung to a loss of KRW 1.01 billion (-4.3% margin) in 2025.

Net income attributable to owners followed a similar pattern, posting KRW 192 million in 2022, KRW 2.59 billion in 2023 and KRW 2.06 billion in 2024, before turning to a loss of KRW 600 million in 2025.

On a quarterly basis, Q2 2025 revenue was KRW 6.52 billion with an operating loss of KRW 50.9 million, yet net income attributable to owners was a positive KRW 666.9 million, a divergence that suggests a non-operating or one-off item.

In Q3 2025 revenue fell to KRW 5.13 billion and the operating loss widened to KRW 511.3 million, pushing the net loss to KRW 838.2 million.

Q4 2025 revenue rose to KRW 8.51 billion, the highest in the recent four-quarter window, and operating profit turned positive at KRW 391.3 million, though net income remained slightly negative at KRW 71.9 million.

In Q1 2026 revenue dropped to KRW 4.30 billion with the operating loss widening to KRW 531.7 million and net loss reaching KRW 839.99 million, before revenue recovered to KRW 6.01 billion in Q2 2026, although the operating loss of KRW 60.3 million and net loss of KRW 140.6 million show the loss-making pattern persisting.

Summing the four quarters from Q3 2025 through Q2 2026, the net loss attributable to owners totals KRW 1.89 billion, larger than the full-year 2025 net loss of KRW 600 million, reflecting the exclusion of the one-off gain seen in Q2 2025 and the heavier losses recorded in Q3 2025 and Q1 2026.

Korea's robotics industry in 2026 is seen as benefiting from a combination of government policy support and market fund flows.

Cumulative net inflows into robotics-themed ETFs are estimated at roughly KRW 1.3 trillion since the start of the year, alongside government measures such as the KOSDAQ market trust and innovation enhancement plan and venture-capital supply initiatives including the National Growth Fund.

Industry observers characterize the current period as an early mass-production phase for humanoid robots, in which component and hardware suppliers are expected to see initial benefits.

In the collaborative robot segment, larger players such as Rainbow Robotics and Doosan Robotics have greater scale and overseas distribution networks, while Pureun Robotics has accumulated technology through participation in a 15kg-payload national research project and joint development with Hyundai Wia, but with comparatively smaller revenue scale.

Under the government's Fourth Basic Plan for Intelligent Robots, joint public-private investment is scheduled to continue through 2030, suggesting sustained industry-wide investment momentum.

However, meaningful revenue contribution from the new cobot lineup will require time for certification, production stabilization, and sales-channel buildout, while the company's legacy financial and transit automation businesses operate in mature markets with limited growth potential.

The company is preparing mass production of Symphony 40 and Symphony 20, with Symphony 40 -- billed as the world's first 40kg-payload cobot -- set to be unveiled at Robot World 2026, running November 4-7.

Symphony 40 has a body weight of 89kg, and the company frames balancing lightweight design against higher payload as a key engineering challenge.

Since 2025 the company has participated in an on-device AI semiconductor development project, working on sVLM-based AI chips for manufacturing automation robots through 2028, and it also joined the Ministry of Science and ICT's virtual-convergence-based physical AI core technology project as a co-research institution, aiming to develop an XR-based physical AI data platform through 2029.

Commercialization of the dental implant surgical-assist robot through subsidiary DI Robotics is also progressing, and the company has joined the K-Humanoid Alliance as a robot manufacturer to help build out the humanoid ecosystem. At SIMTOS 2026 it pursued joint intelligent automation solutions with SMEC.

Over the medium to long term, the company has outlined a three-pronged strategy: building out its cobot lineup, becoming a leader in system businesses such as palletizing and welding, and upgrading hardware-based technology for physical AI companies.

No official guidance has yet been given on the timing or scale at which these new initiatives will translate into revenue and profit, so future disclosures and order announcements will need to be monitored.