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DRC-HUBO
Rainbow Robotics
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- Height
- 175 cm
- Payload
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- Verified autonomy
- not assessed
- Real deployment
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DRC-HUBO
Rainbow RoboticsDRC-HUBO is a transformable humanoid disaster-response robot developed by Team KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in partnership with Rainbow, Inc., built on the HUBO 2 (KHR-4) platform. It won first place and the $2 million grand prize at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in June 2015, completing all eight disaster-response tasks faster than any competitor. The robot's key innovation is its ability to transform between bipedal walking and a wheeled kneeling posture using built-in knee wheels. During the DRC, it was operated by a trio of human operators under high-latency, low-bandwidth teleoperation conditions — making it a teleoperated/supervised system rather than an autonomous one. It is not commercially available and remains a research platform.
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Specification
- height
- 175 cm
- weight
- 80 kg
- degrees of freedom
- 32 DOFs (1 head, 8×2 arm & hand, 7×2 leg & wheel, 1 waist); some sources cite 38 DOF (likely counting additional hand/finger joints)
- speed
- ~3 km/h (wheeled mode), ~1.5 km/h (walking mode)
- battery life
- ~60 minutes (task-dependent)
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the Rainbow Robotics deep report
Samsung Electronics has become Rainbow Robotics' largest shareholder with ~35% stake, with a stated goal of accelerating intelligent humanoid development for manufacturing and logistics.
Samsung's own official newsroom press release [8] confirms the ~35% stake (via call option exercise on top of an initial 14.7% stake acquired for KRW 86.8 billion in 2023) and explicitly states the manufacturing/logistics humanoid development goal — this is a first-party Samsung source, not Rainbow Robotics PR.
from Rainbow Robotics deep report →RB Series cobots are deployed in real-world manufacturing applications (machine loading, assembly, food & beverage) and are CE-certified and commercially available through European distributors.
European distributor site [6] independently confirms CE certification, commercial availability, and specific use cases (machine loading, assembly, recurring manufacturing operations), providing third-party corroboration beyond vendor PR.
from Rainbow Robotics deep report →
RB-Y1 is commercially available at $80,000 USD (research) / $120,000 USD (commercial), with sequential deliveries starting October 2024.
Pricing and delivery timeline are confirmed by trade press [4] citing the official pre-order announcement, but no independent source has verified that deliveries actually commenced on schedule or at what volume.
from Rainbow Robotics deep report →Rainbow Robotics has a trilateral strategic partnership with Schaeffler and KETI for AI-mobile dual-arm robotics, and a separate collaboration for laparoscopic cholecystectomy preclinical trials.
PR Newswire [7] and the official site [1] confirm both partnerships were announced, but these are press-release-level disclosures with no independent reporting on partnership outcomes, milestones achieved, or clinical trial results.
from Rainbow Robotics deep report →
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