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Rainbow Robotics
South Korean robotics company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rainbow Robotics (Korean: 레인보우로보틱스) is a South Korean robotics company founded in 2011 by Professor Oh Jun-ho of the HUBO Lab at the KAIST.
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History
Oh Jun-ho, Professor of KAIST, founded Rainbow in 2011 with students at the KAIST Humanoid Robot Research Center.[1][2] The company produced 15 units of the mass-produced model of HUBO-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]
Location
The headquarters is located in the Daedeok Innopolis in Yuseong District, Daejeon. In 2023, a local corporation with a dedicated collaborative robot sales and customer management organization was established in Schaumburg, Illinois, and a branch office was subsequently established in the United States.[4][5]
Product
The flagship product, HUBO, is the first bipedal humanoid robot developed by KAIST. DDRC-HUBO, an exoskeleton-type disaster relief robot, is the winning model in the 2015 DARPA 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]
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