Rainbow Robotics · Humanoid · 2015
DRC-HUBO, from KAIST and Rainbow Robotics, is the humanoid that won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in 2015. Its standout trick is transforming between walking on two legs and kneeling onto wheels in its knees to roll quickly and stably, letting it drive a vehicle, open doors, turn valves, cut walls and traverse rubble - the full DRC task list - more reliably than rivals.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Transformer Disaster-Response Humanoid (DARPA winner) |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2015 |
| Origin | South Korea |
| Released | 2015 |
| Weight | 91 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 32 |
| Payload | 15 kg |
| Max speed | 0.5 m/s |
| Battery life | 240 min |
| Camera | Stereo vision cameras and additional sensors for navigation |
| AI model | Compliance control (joint-level environmental dynamics); semi-autonomous with human operators |
| Operating system | Xenomai real-time Linux |
| Actuator type | 33 air-cooled motors with custom drivers + special amplifiers; supercapacitor backup power; wheels on knees for biped<->wheeled transformation |
| Use cases | Humanoid disaster intervention, Hybrid walk/roll locomotion |
| Made in | South Korea |
