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WIM has become the first Daegu-Gyeongbuk company to reach the finals of 'NVIDIA Inception Grand Challenge 2026,' a competition that drew more than 10,000 startups from five APAC countries — Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. The final and corporate matching program will be held on September 22 at 'NVIDIA AI Day' in Singapore.
WIM has been selected as one of the Asia-Pacific Top 20 finalists in the NVIDIA Inception Grand Challenge 2026, after passing the judging panel's evaluation at the Korea semifinal on August 27. The final and corporate matching program will be held on September 22 at 'NVIDIA AI Day' in Singapore.
WIM will advance to the Korea semifinal of the NVIDIA Inception Grand Challenge on August 27, after being selected for the Top 40 among AI startups across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The company will present its W-RC robot controller, which uses a single NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX-based SoC to handle 275 TOPS of edge AI inference and 1ms (1kHz) real-time control at the same time.
WIM took part in the 'Global Deep-Tech Technology Commercialization Forum' at the 39th US-Korea Conference (UKC 2026) in Orlando, Florida. During the event, CEO Woojin Jeon met NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky and introduced WIM's robot control technology.
WIM Inc. has been selected as an 'M.AX (Manufacturing AI Transformation) Specialist Company' in the equipment/robotics category, a designation administered by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT). WIM will hold this status for two years, from August 5, 2026 to August 4, 2028.
WIM joined a Korean deep-tech delegation organized by the INNOPOLIS Foundation as part of UKC 2026, starting with NeoCity in Osceola County, Florida — a county-built semiconductor campus hosting a SkyWater-operated fab and an imec research lab.
WIM co-developed a smart-farm robot that automates cucumber pruning in greenhouses, using vision to identify leaves and a robot arm to prune them. It is now in field validation.
WIM builds an AI robot controller that unifies AI compute and real-time robot control in one device, acting within a millisecond. Korean business daily Maeil Business spotlighted it as the "robot brain NVIDIA is watching."
WIM was selected for the 2026 Disruptive Innovation in Plus Stage (DIPS) Startup Project robotics track, run by KAIST GCC, which supports 84 deep-tech startups in robotics and advanced manufacturing.
WIM was selected for Asan Voyager 2026, the Asan Nanum Foundation's US GTM accelerator — 1 of 10 chosen at 16:1 odds. A two-week Silicon Valley camp follows in May 2026 for customer and partnership validation.