KAIST — Humanoid Robot Research Center (HUBO)
Creator of HUBO — the robot that won the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015, beating 22 international teams including Boston Dynamics. KAIST is Korea's top robotics research institution.
Notable achievements
HUBO (DARPA Robotics Challenge winner 2015), DRC-HUBO+, KHR series, bipedal disaster response robots, Korean Robot Industry Association founding.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Grasp stability estimation in the pre-touch stage for soft robotic grippers using object shape extracted from images
Ryogo Kai, Yuzuka Isobe, Sarthak Pathak +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026