Est. 2027 · Mona Vale, Sydney
UKIYO
Robotics
Building Australia’s first NVIDIA-powered humanoid robotics company. Clean IP. Local manufacturing. Purpose-built for Australian industry.
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Building Australia’s first NVIDIA-powered humanoid robotics company. Clean IP. Local manufacturing. Purpose-built for Australian industry.
Explore the vision →The global humanoid robot market grew over 500% in 2025, with approximately 18,000 units shipped worldwide. China leads deployment. Korea and Japan are scaling aggressively. Australia has zero domestic capability.
UKIYO Robotics will license the AI brain from NVIDIA’s open GR00T foundation model, source precision components from the global supply chain, and manufacture the physical body in Australia — creating a humanoid built for Australian industry with clean, transparent IP and no single-source foreign dependency.
Our initial target sectors are aged care, healthcare logistics, agriculture, and manufacturing — industries facing chronic labour shortages that mass migration alone cannot sustainably solve.
Our approach separates the intelligence layer (licensed from NVIDIA), the mechanical components (sourced globally), and the physical chassis (manufactured locally). No single-source dependency. Full IP control.
The onboard compute platform powering every UKIYO humanoid. Blackwell GPU architecture delivering 2,070 TFLOPS of AI compute within a 130W envelope. The same platform adopted by Boston Dynamics (Atlas), Figure, Agility Robotics, Amazon Robotics, and Medtronic. Developer kit available at $3,499; production modules at $2,999 per unit at volume.
Open foundation model for humanoid reasoning and skills, available with commercial licensing. Vision-Language-Action architecture enabling generalised manipulation, navigation, and multi-step task execution. UKIYO will post-train GR00T specifically for Australian aged care, healthcare, and industrial environments — creating proprietary, sector-specific AI models we own.
NVIDIA’s simulation and synthetic data generation platform. Allows us to generate hundreds of thousands of training trajectories without needing physical robot demonstrations. 780,000 synthetic trajectories generated in 11 hours — equivalent to 9 months of continuous human demonstration data.
Structural frame manufactured using Australian lithium (batteries), titanium (frame), and soft composite materials (contact surfaces for care settings). Mechanical components — actuators, dexterous hands, joint mechanisms — sourced from the global supply chain at 50–70% cost advantage. Assembled and certified in Mona Vale.
$10–20M AUD capital deployed over 2027–2031. Phased build from NVIDIA licensing through to domestic manufacturing and national distribution.
The cause is cost efficiency and technological readiness. The effect is that the economic argument for labour-gap migration collapses at the enterprise level.
Jetson Thor at ~$3k per brain. Mechanical components at 50–70% below Western alternatives. Target all-in unit cost under $50k AUD at scale. Operating 20 hours daily on a 4-hour charge cycle.
A single care worker costs ~$85k/yr in wages, super, insurance, and turnover. A UKIYO unit costs $50k once and returns investment within 2–6 years. Zero turnover. Consistent performance.
UKIYO Robotics Pty Ltd under Ukiyo Trust. Capital depreciation, R&D tax incentives, regional grants, and CGT discount through discretionary family trust distribution.
Unitree shipped 5,500+ humanoids in 2025. Hyundai plans 30,000 Atlas units/yr by 2028. The market is proven. Australia’s window as first mover domestically is now.
NVIDIA’s GR00T is open-weight, permissive license. No Chinese software dependency. No backdoor risk. Full auditability for healthcare and government deployment — a critical trust differentiator.
Phase 1–2: $4–6M AUD. Full 5-year build to manufacturing: $10–20M AUD. Revenue target by 2031: $100M+. Well within private funding range before any external raise.
Sydney’s Northern Beaches corridor — where coastal lifestyle meets the engineering talent pipeline of one of the world’s great university cities.
University of Sydney, UTS, and UNSW produce world-class robotics, mechatronics, and AI graduates. Direct recruitment pathway for founding team and ongoing hires.
Mona Vale and Warriewood industrial precincts offer accessible warehouse space for integration lab, testing, and assembly — with room to scale.
40 minutes to Port Botany for international freight. Direct access to import precision components from global manufacturing partners.
The Northern Beaches is one of Australia’s most desirable places to live. Critical for attracting and retaining top-tier engineering talent.
Over 2 million developers worldwide on the NVIDIA robotics stack. Sydney’s tech community provides direct access to this talent pool and knowledge base.
Projected unit deployment, revenue, and team growth across the five-year build.
