{"id":"holiday-friday","manufacturer":"Holiday Robotics","model":"Friday","country":"KR","description":"FRIDAY is the first industrial humanoid from South Korea's Holiday Robotics, built for repetitive, physically demanding factory work. Its standout feature is a highly dexterous 20-DoF hand with tactile sensing. It is an industrial robot, not a conversational social humanoid.","catalog_status":"in-development","specifications":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null,"payload_kg":null,"dof":null,"speed_ms":null,"battery_h":null},"capabilities":["sort"],"source":{"url":"https://www.holidayrobotics.com","verified_at":null,"verified_fields":[],"review_status":"requires_current_source_check"},"evidence":{"manufacturer_review":null,"mera_field_test":{"status":"not_published","report_url":null,"measured_at":null},"verification_note":"A manufacturer documentation check does not verify field performance, inventory or MERA compatibility."},"knowledge":{"summary":"FRIDAY is the first industrial humanoid from South Korea's Holiday Robotics, built for repetitive, physically demanding factory work. Its standout feature is a highly dexterous 20-DoF hand with tactile sensing. It is an industrial robot, not a conversational social humanoid.","sections":[{"h":"Hardware","p":["Holiday Robotics lists FRIDAY at 64 degrees of freedom in total, with two 7-DoF arms and 20-DoF hands with fully integrated tactile sensors. Each hand weighs 600 g including sensors, and every finger segment carries 5 kg. The company's job listings also mention a mobile base and head-mounted cameras."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["The company builds its own simulator, Holiday Sim (also called Holiday-Newton in job listings), to model the robot and contact dynamics, plus a world-model-based simulator of neural networks that predict future states from physical understanding. FRIDAY fuses camera images, tactile data and joint state for grasping, in-hand reorientation, tool use and assembly.","In July 2026 the team's paper on FlashSAC, a reinforcement learning algorithm for high-DoF robots, won the Best Paper Award at RSS 2026, a first for a Korean team. According to the Seoul Economic Daily, it cut humanoid walking training from hours to minutes and is being applied to FRIDAY."]},{"h":"Manufacturer","p":["Holiday Robotics Inc. has an office in Gangnam, Seoul, and a team in Mountain View, California. In July 2026 it announced a 155 billion won Series A. Its tagline is \"Freeing Human Hands\"."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["FRIDAY is still in development; no price or sales date has been announced."]}],"timeline":[["2026-07","155 billion won Series A"],["2026-07","Best Paper Award at RSS 2026 (FlashSAC)"]],"faq":[["Where is Holiday Robotics from?","South Korea, with an office in Seoul and a team in Mountain View."],["How many degrees of freedom does FRIDAY have?","64, including 20 per hand."],["What is FRIDAY for?","Repetitive, physically demanding industrial work that needs dexterous hands."],["Can you buy FRIDAY?","No, it is still in development."]],"sources":[{"title":"Holiday Robotics: Freeing Human Hands (site content: FRIDAY, newsroom, careers)","publisher":"Holiday Robotics","url":"https://holiday-robotics.com","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"Holiday Robotics wins best paper award at world's top robotics conference","publisher":"Seoul Economic Daily","url":"https://en.sedaily.com/technology/2026/07/22/holiday-robotics-wins-best-paper-award-at-worlds-top","date":"2026-07-22"}],"updated":"2026-10-10"},"mera":{"rental_with_operator":false,"sale_in_offer":false,"availability":"confirmation_required","shop_url":null},"url":"https://merarobotics.com/blog/humanoids/holiday-friday","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=holiday-friday"}