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Bear Robotics

Redwood City, California, United States · Subsidiary · bearrobotics.ai

Bear Robotics builds autonomous service robots for customer-facing hospitality and service environments, including its established mobile robot portfolio.

Robotics · watchlist · score 66Humanoids · prospect · score 23

Positioning

Bear Robotics is a US/Korea maker of service and hospitality robots (16,000+ deployed globally), an LG subsidiary since LG acquired a 51% majority stake in January 2025 (~$180M, an implied $600M valuation). It acquired Kinisi Robotics in June 2026 (adding humanoid manipulation), expanded into cleaning and its Carti AMR line, and integrated with LG's CLOi robotics unit. Bear-specific revenue is not broken out of LG.

Latest signals

  • Bear Robotics launched the KINO-2 robot learning platform through engineering collaboration with NVIDIA.Robot News
  • Bear Robotics has supplied more than 16,000 robots to over 5,000 customer sites worldwide.Robot News
  • Bear Robotics cut robotics foundation-model processing delay by 8x using NVIDIA technology.Interesting Engineering
  • Bear Robotics launched the KINO-2 through an engineering collaboration with NVIDIA.RoboticsTomorrow
  • SoftBank Robotics will debut STEAMA and FLAMA in the U.S. at the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show.SoftBank Robotics

12 signals name Bear Robotics. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • STEAMA and FLAMA debut in the U.S.Product launch · SoftBank Robotics
  • [object Object]Revenue band · 36Kr — 2026-09-07
  • KRW 300–400 billion pre-IPO financingFunding round · 36Kr — 2026-09-07
  • Brennand Pierce appointed Chief Robotics OfficerSenior hire · The Robot Report

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Scores, Robotics (of 10)

Deployment8
Production6
Commercials4
Progress7
Technology6
Positioning6
Firepower8
Leverage6

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Bear Robotics do?

Bear Robotics builds autonomous service robots for customer-facing hospitality and service environments, including its established mobile robot portfolio. Bear Robotics is a US/Korea maker of service and hospitality robots (16,000+ deployed globally), an LG subsidiary since LG acquired a 51% majority stake in January 2025 (~$180M, an implied $600M valuation). It acquired Kinisi Robotics in June 2026 (adding humanoid manipulation), expanded into cleaning and its Carti AMR line, and integrated with LG's CLOi robotics unit. Bear-specific revenue is not

Where does Bear Robotics rank in robotics?

Bear Robotics is on the Robotics watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 66 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Bear Robotics based and when was it founded?

Bear Robotics is based in Redwood City, California, United States. Stage: Subsidiary.

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