Native name | 레인보우로보틱스 |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public |
| KRX:277810 | |
| Industry | Robotics |
| Founded | 10 February 2011; 15 years ago (2011-02-10) |
| Headquarters | , South Korea |
| Products | Cobot,humanoid robot |
| Website | www |
Rainbow Robotics (Korean: 레인보우로보틱스) is a South Koreanrobotics company founded in 2011 by Professor Oh Jun-ho of the HUBO Lab at theKAIST.
Oh Jun-ho, Professor ofKAIST, foundedRainbow in 2011 with students at the KAIST Humanoid Robot Research Center.[1][2] The company produced 15 units of the mass-produced model ofHUBO-2, HUBO-2 Plus, by 2012, exporting four units to domestic humanoid research teams and 11 units to overseas research teams in the United States, Japan, Singapore, and China.[3]
The headquarters is located in theDaedeok Innopolis inYuseong District, Daejeon. In 2023, a local corporation with a dedicated collaborative robot sales and customer management organization was established inSchaumburg, Illinois, and a branch office was subsequently established in the United States.[4][5]
The flagship product,HUBO, is the first bipedalhumanoid robot developed byKAIST. DDRC-HUBO, an exoskeleton-type disaster relief robot, is the winning model in the 2015DARPA Robotics Challenge. It has an original actuator cooling system and a wheeled driving mode. HUBO-2 is the world's first commercialized humanoid robot platform and is a humanoid robot with a size similar to an actual person. It applies a cable-driven adaptive five-finger hand, and the fingers can close according to the shape of the object, allowing it to grasp objects of various shapes.[6]
Other products include astronomy mount system, media service robot, medical laser robot toning system,cocktail and barista robot,cobot, mobile robot, and quadruped robot.[7]