WIM Joins MOTIE K-Humanoid Alliance (Jul 2025)
WIM was selected in July 2025 as a new participating company in the K-Humanoid Alliance, the national humanoid program led by Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The alliance is operated by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) and is an industry-academia consortium for humanoid AI model development and core technology supply.
The K-Humanoid Alliance is MOTIE's government-led framework for building domestic technology independence in humanoid robotics. Participants work jointly on humanoid design, manufacturing, control, and AI model development, with KEIT running operations and project management. The intent is to establish a sovereign supply chain for AI models, parts, and software stacks as humanoid development accelerates globally.
Within the alliance, WIM covers robot control software and real-time control infrastructure. Humanoid robots demand multi-joint balance control, sub-millisecond deterministic cycles, and edge AI inference simultaneously. The WIM Robot Controller satisfies those requirements in a single box: 275 TOPS (INT8) compute on NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX paired with 1ms (1kHz) real-time control. Through the PLEM software platform, WIM will provide alliance partners with ROS 2-based interfaces so they can focus on control policies and learning models without being slowed by hardware heterogeneity.
The selection positions WIM as a control-stack supplier within Korea's humanoid ecosystem. The company plans to expand its role as a software-stack supplier in Korea's 2026-2027 humanoid commercialization roadmap.
Founded in 2023, WIM is an AI robot control platform company. Its NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX-based WIM Robot Controller and PLEM software enable a unified control layer spanning cobots, 6-axis industrial arms, and humanoid robots.
FAQ
Q1. What is the K-Humanoid Alliance? A. It is a domestic industry-academia consortium led by Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and operated by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT). The alliance covers humanoid design, manufacturing, control, and AI model development with the goal of building a sovereign domestic supply chain.
Q2. What is WIM's role inside the alliance? A. WIM covers robot control software and real-time control infrastructure, contributing the WIM Robot Controller and the PLEM platform to provide deterministic real-time control and edge AI compute for humanoids.
Q3. When was WIM selected, and what is the official name? A. WIM was selected in July 2025 as a new participating company. The official name is K-Humanoid Alliance; participating companies and specific workstreams are managed via KEIT announcements.
Q4. What are WIM's relevant product specifications? A. The WIM Robot Controller, built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX, delivers 1ms (1kHz) real-time control and 275 TOPS (INT8) edge AI compute in a single box. The PLEM software platform supports diverse robot hardware through a ROS 2-based interface.