Physical AI company Carbonsix, which targets manufacturers, said on Wednesday it raised a total of $40 million (60 billion won) in Series A funding from Korean and U.S. venture capital firms including DSC Investment, LB Investment, IMM, KDB, SV Investment, Cotentia and A Squared.

The round was co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment, with IMM Investment, KDB Industrial Bank and SV Investment, as well as U.S.-based Cortentia and A Squared, participating as new investors.

Carbonsix develops robot AI products and automation technology that can be deployed directly at manufacturing sites. Carbonsix said it provides customers with automation tools that can be used immediately on-site, and has built a data flywheel structure in which high-quality work data naturally accumulates during tool use. It stressed that a virtuous cycle of tool use, data accumulation, model improvement and better tools continues to raise product performance and customer value.

Tae-yeon Moon (문태연), Carbonsix's chief executive, founded industrial AI company SuA Lab and later sold it to Cognex before founding Carbonsix again. CTO Hyeong-ju Seo (서형주) is a robotics AI expert with a PhD from MIT. CHO Je-hyuk Kim (김제혁), Chief Hardware Officer, was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and has expertise in designing robot hands and manipulators.

Moon said Carbonsix has aimed from the start to build robot AI not as technology for technology's sake but as technology that can be applied immediately on manufacturing sites and translated into customer results. He said the investment means the market has validated Carbonsix's direction, which focuses on on-site deployment and sales, and that the company will actively invest in talent and infrastructure to accelerate the physical AI transition in manufacturing worldwide.