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Stonebridge Ventures joined as the new lead and Bon Angels Venture Partners, an early investor, followed on. The money goes first into a test bed of our own, where welding automation, outdoor autonomy and the spatial MES are proven under real site conditions.
Money Today · 28 September 2026We published the contract structure: no equipment sale, settlement against completed welding volume. Customers spend nothing on equipment and LiOps carries the uptime risk.
Related article: We do not sell robotsKR 10-2983357 and KR 10-2893463 were granted. Six further applications are under examination.
In a government programme run jointly with HD Hyundai Samho, we completed on-site automation of free-form welding including flat butt joints. A third party verified the result.
Per the site completion reportA paid proof of concept and a pilot were completed in turn, and the project entered deployment. The proof of concept at HD Hyundai Samho is complete, and one at Samsung Heavy Industries is planned.
On the public leaderboard for 3D perception in autonomous driving, co-CEO Seungyeop Sun placed first. The model Waymo submitted itself came thirteenth.
Waymo Open Dataset · 3D Semantic SegmentationKuki News profiled LiOps on its selection for the Gyeongnam Open Innovation programme, covering our own embodied AI model and our plans for the shipyard.
Kuki News · Kang Jong-hyoLiOps pitched at the D.Day held jointly by D.Camp and Hyundai's ZER01NE, where its way of automating an existing floor without rebuilding it was introduced.
Wowtale · Jung Myung-hwaThe problem we defined, how we work and the people building it are set out on the company page.