en.Wedoany.com Reported - Watt (CEO Choi Jaewon), a provider of in-building autonomous delivery solutions, has been selected for the 2026 Scale-up TIPS R&D (Special Type) project, supervised by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and executed by the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs. The company will receive up to 3 billion KRW in government-funded R&D support over three years.

Scale-up TIPS is a technology development support program by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups that links private investment with government R&D to help promising startups in their growth stage achieve scalable development and global market expansion. The special type project targets companies with proven technological achievements and commercialization potential for selection and support.

Watt plans to formally develop a heavy-duty dual-arm humanoid robot for in-building logistics automation. The company will advance full-body control technology integrated with autonomous mobile platforms to handle items of various sizes and weights.

Watt CEO Choi Jaewon stated, "Based on accumulated field data, technical capabilities, and market expansion achievements, we concretized our technology roadmap toward dual-arm humanoid robots, which led to our selection. We will develop heavy-duty robots capable of performing more everyday tasks, further expanding the scope of in-building logistics automation."

Watt is currently operating in-building logistics automation services in South Korea and Japan, and plans to conduct a proof of concept (PoC) in the United States in the second half of the year. The company will continue to expand its domestic and international markets based on an operational structure combining autonomous mobile robots and unmanned stations.