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KAIST and Rainbow Robotics is a robotics company founded 1971, based in South Korea, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
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Add a deployment →KAIST is a leading South Korean research university in science and technology.
KAIST is a South Korean research university whose robotics work includes the DRC-Hubo humanoid developed by its research team for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Public coverage identifies Team KAIST in Daejeon as the creator of DRC-Hubo, which won the 2015 finals and was designed for disaster-response tasks rather than commercial deployment.
Company facts
- HQ
- Daejeon, South Korea
- Founded
- 1971 · 55 yrs
- Website
- www.kaist.ac.kr
RoboScore
52.87 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
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Awards & recognition
- DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals first place2015dvidshub.net ↗
Milestones
Team KAIST and its DRC-Hubo robot won first place at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
Press coverage
- Robots from South Korea, U.S. Win DARPA Finals
DVIDS · Jun 2025
- South Korean Team Wins DARPA Robotics Challenge
TIME · Jun 2015
- research
KAIST News Center
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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