KAIST / Rainbow Robotics · Humanoid · 2004
HUBO is the pioneering Korean research humanoid developed at KAIST and commercialised by Rainbow Robotics - a full bipedal platform (~125 cm) that became the basis for the DRC-HUBO that won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. Widely used for humanoid locomotion and manipulation research.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Bipedal Research Humanoid (historical) |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2004 |
| Origin | South Korea |
| Announced | 2004 |
| Released | 2004 |
| Weight | 55 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 41 |
| Max speed | 0.35 m/s |
| Camera | Stereo + RGB-D |
| AI model | Biped walking control; voice recognition + synthesis; sophisticated vision (independent eye movement); imitates human motions (walking, hand-shaking, bowing, rock-paper-scissors) |
| Operating system | Rainbow Robotics |
| Actuator type | Electric servo joints (distributed control architecture); crossing joint axes at shoulder/hip/wrist/neck/ankle for simple kinematics; increased frame stiffness over KHR-2 |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth |
| Use cases | Humanoid research, Bipedal locomotion R&D, Education |
| Made in | South Korea |
