DRC-HUBO+
DRC-HUBO+ from Team KAIST won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals and the USD 2 million prize, using a transformable design that kneels onto wheels for stable driving.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Retired
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- June 2015
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 170 cm
- Weight
- 80 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 32
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric with wheels on knees for kneeling drive mode
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Winner of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in June 2015; retired to research and museum display.
What stands out
- Won DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015
- Kneels onto knee wheels
Autonomy, observed
Completed all eight DRC Finals tasks in 44 minutes 28 seconds on 6 June 2015.
Supervised teleoperation under DRC rules.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: three-finger grippers
- Sensors: LiDAR, cameras
Price and volume
Research robot.
Milestones.
KAIST's DRC-HUBO wins the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
At the finals in Pomona, California, Team KAIST completes all eight tasks in 44 minutes and wins 2 million dollars, ahead of IHMC (Atlas) and Tartan Rescue. Videos of falling robots go viral and show how far humanoids still are from field use.
Humanoid races, games and fights: what the competitions proved
Our record holds 11 competition events from 1997 to 2025 and 17 machines tied to them. Six can be ordered, three at a public price, and 13 of the 17 carry a teleoperation flag of yes or partial.
A short history of the humanoid, from Elektro to the order button
Our record holds 111 dated milestones since 1939. Sixty-eight of them are from this decade, and what changed was not the walking. It was the price tag.
Other robots by KAIST.
Sources
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- 02HUBO, WikipediaWikipedia
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