Rainbow Robotics HUBO2
HUBO2 was the lighter, faster successor to the original HUBO and the first product of Rainbow Robotics, the KAIST spin-out founded in 2011. Several units went to US universities.
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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.
- Status
- Discontinued
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 2008
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 130 cm
- Weight
- 45 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 40
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- 1 m/s
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Commercial research version of HUBO sold by Rainbow Robotics from 2011 to universities worldwide.
What stands out
- Exported to US universities
Autonomy, observed
Running gait demonstrated; used by MIT, Drexel, UPenn and Georgia Tech in DARPA-funded research.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: five-finger hands
Price and volume
Reported at about USD 400,000 per unit for research customers.
Other robots by Rainbow Robotics.
Sources
- 01Rainbow Robotics official siteRainbow Robotics
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