Rainbow Robotics
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Native name | 레인보우로보틱스 |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| KRX: 277810 | |
| Industry | Robotics |
| Founded | 10 February 2011 |
| Headquarters | , South Korea |
| Products | Cobot, humanoid robot |
| Website | www |
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.
History
[edit]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] Rainbow Robotics was acquired by Samsung Electronics in March 2025.[4]
Location
[edit]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.[5][6]
Product
[edit]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.[7]
Other products include astronomy mount system, media service robot, medical laser robot toning system, cocktail and barista robot, cobot, mobile robot, and quadruped robot.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "[차세대 로봇 히어로] 휴보의 아버지 오준호 교수". Seoul Economic Daily. 5 April 2016.
- ↑ ""천만원 넣었으면 2억됐다" 설마했는데…이건 진짜 '역대급'이다". Herald Business. 20 January 2024.
- ↑ "걷고 뛰고 춤추는 휴보…'몸값 4억원' 세계 곳곳에 수출". Maeil Business Newspaper. 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "Regulator approves Samsung's acquisition of robotics startup - The Korea Times". www.koreatimes.co.kr. 2025-03-05. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "최상목 "로봇 핵심부품 80% 국산화할 것…상반기 로드맵 발표"". Korea Economic Daily. 8 April 2024.
- ↑ "레인보우로보틱스, 차세대 의료용 로봇 개발 본격 진행". Maeil Economic Daily. 7 January 2025.
- ↑ "레인보우로보, 스마트공장·자동화산업전서 이동형 양팔로봇 등 공개". Chosun Ilbo. 27 March 2024.
- ↑ "레인보우로보틱스, 'IMTS 2024' 참가…美 협동로봇 시장 공략". Yonhap News. 6 September 2024.
