Hurotics raises 25 billion won to take a soft walking exosuit abroad

In short: Hurotics said on Oct. 15 that it raised 25 billion won (about $17.5 million, per Seoul Economic Daily) in a Series A. Total funding is now above 33.5 billion won. The money is for overseas approvals of its H-Medi gait exosuit and for H-Care, a robot meant to help everyday walking.

The round

• Lead: Atinum Investment. Follow-on checks from Stonebridge Ventures, the Industrial Bank of Korea, Aju IB Investment and Wonik Investment Partners.
• New investors: Daewoong, NAVER and Lotte as strategic backers, plus Mirae Asset Venture Investment.
• Hurotics says it will work with them on hospital supply, distribution, overseas markets and a data and software platform.

The robot

• Founded in July 2022 by Lee Gi-wook, a mechanical-engineering professor at Chung-Ang University. Robot Newspaper reports that he led clothing-like wearable-robot work on DARPA's Warrior Web program at Harvard's Wyss Institute, and was first author on a 2019 Science cover paper about a wearable robot that assists walking and running.
• H-Medi is a soft exosuit for medical gait rehab. Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety certified it as a Class 2 combination medical device. Cable-and-tendon actuation, meant to mimic muscle contraction, lets it be worn like clothing. Sensors read the gait and add the force needed so the wearer still uses their own muscles.
• On sale since September 2025 at Severance Hospital in Sinchon, Chung-Ang University Hospital and Korea University Hospital. Exported in June 2026 to the University of Illinois Chicago for stroke-rehab research and physical-therapist training. The company is also pursuing Japan and Southeast Asia.
• Robot Newspaper puts headcount at 47, with about 45% holding a master's or doctorate.

Why it matters

Most of this week's humanoid headlines are factory pilots. Hurotics is already selling a wearable in hospitals. The company says what comes next is help with daily walking, plus what it calls wearable physical AI: personalized gait algorithms and software that flags muscle loss and fall risk.

Lee Gi-wook, via Seoul Economic Daily: "With this investment, we will accelerate the global rollout of H-Medi and the commercialization of H-Care, and combine it with physical AI to deliver wearable robots that look after people's health in daily life."