Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1
RB-Y1 is a wheeled two-armed humanoid platform from Rainbow Robotics with 7-DOF arms and a 6-DOF torso, aimed at embodied AI research.
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. Treat the score as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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
- Commercial
- Category
- platform
- First revealed
- 2024
- Form
- wheeled-base
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 24
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- yes
Where it stands
Wheeled bimanual mobile manipulator sold to research labs since 2024; used by Samsung for AI training.
What stands out
- Research platform used by Samsung
Autonomy, observed
Manipulation research demos; used in Samsung Electronics AI research.
Teleoperation rig available for data collection.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: grippers
- AI stack: open SDK
Price and volume
Public price unverified.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1 sits at #57 of 107 with 36 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 8/30, availability 14/20. See that method.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Humanoid robot stocks: which of the 108 makers are actually listed
Twenty of the 108 makers in our record have a ticker. Four of them will sell you a humanoid. The rest build cars, chips, servers and washing machines, and the pure plays are all private.
Other robots by Rainbow Robotics.
Sources
- 01Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1Rainbow Robotics
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