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KAIST is a robotics company founded 1971, based in South Korea, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
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A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against KAIST.
In Humanoid, UBTECH Robotics, Agility Robotics and SoftBank Robotics have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →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.
Company facts
- HQ
- South Korea
- Founded
- 1971 · 55 yrs
- Website
- www.kaist.ac.kr/en
RoboScore
61.14 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
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
7 events · last 90 days
KAIST Declares Physical AI Vision With President Demonstrating Wearable Robot
In the news
7 events · last 90 days
Why KAIST has been in the news, across 10 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.
Public loss record
Korea’s national recall board holds 4,245 notices and not one robot. Its workplace accident search cannot be read without a browser, so that half is unknown.
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