Tefa Robotics
Physical AI software for industrial factory automation.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| investor | €0.0 | round | |
* | KRW2.0b | Seed | |
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Tefa Robotics is a South Korean startup developing Physical AI for industrial robots to facilitate efficient factory automation. The company was founded in March 2023 by CEO Junghyuk Park and CTO Jonghyun Baek. Park holds a Ph.D. in AI from the University of Tokyo, while Baek previously managed articulated robot control and programming at FANUC Korea. The company's core offering is a foundation model designed to simplify the integration of robotic systems, thereby automating labor-intensive tasks and enhancing operational efficiency for industrial clients.
Physical AI, as defined by the company, is artificial intelligence that performs tasks in the physical world, moving beyond simple recognition or generative AI. Tefa Robotics is applying this technology to the industrial robot market, which sees approximately 600,000 new units deployed annually. The firm addresses the challenge of deploying AI in the complex and often closed-architecture environments of industrial robotics. They have developed a proprietary data generation pipeline and have fine-tuned open-source Robotics Foundation Models (RFMs) with over 800,000 of their own real-world data samples to validate performance.
In August 2025, Tefa Robotics secured approximately $1.45 million in a Pre-Series A funding round. The round was led by FuturePlay, with participation from new investors IBK Venture Investment and KDB Capital. This brought the company's total raised capital to $2.57 million. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Keywords: Physical AI, industrial robots, factory automation, robotics foundation model, manufacturing automation, articulated robot control, real-world data, robotics software, advanced manufacturing, AI robotics, autonomous production, machine vision, robotics data