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KAIST is a robotics company founded 1971, based in South Korea, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
Rainbow Robotics is a South Korean robotics company that manufactures the HUBO humanoid robot series, including HUBO-2, as a KAIST spin-off. It develops biped and humanoid robots for research and advanced robotics applications, and was later identified by Samsung as a Korean robotics firm in its investment announcement.
Active products
1
Maker Score
56
Strong evidence
View factor breakdown
Price range
$400K
1 of 1 priced
Top-rated product
61.8
RoboScore
Hubo 2
Company facts
- HQ
- South Korea
- Founded
- 1971 · 55 yrs
- Website
- www.kaist.ac.kr/en
Maker Score
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Milestones
Rainbow Robotics was founded by researchers from KAIST.
Press coverage
- Samsung Electronics to Become Largest Shareholder in Rainbow Robotics, Accelerating Future Robot Development
Samsung Newsroom · Jan 2023
In the news
6 events · last 90 days
KAIST Launches World’s First Bidirectional Brain-to-Robot Exoskeleton System
In the news
6 events · last 90 days
Why KAIST has been in the news, across 7 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
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