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Korea Institute of Science & Technology is a robotics company founded 1966, based in South Korea, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
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Add a deployment →KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) is a South Korean research institute that developed humanoid robots including Mahru (2005) and Kibo (2011). Mahru is a full-size humanoid robot capable of autonomous walking and household tasks, controllable via motion-capture suit. Kibo is a humanoid robot with expressive features, voice command understanding, and 43 degrees of freedom designed for interaction and hugging.
Active products
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RoboIndex
32.49
RoboScore 32.49 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- Legal name
- Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST)
- HQ
- South Korea
- Founded
- 1966 · 60 yrs
RoboScore
32.49 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Weak 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.
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Milestones
Developed Kibo, a humanoid robot with expressive face, voice command understanding, and 43 degrees of freedom
Developed Mahru, a full-size humanoid robot capable of walking and performing household tasks
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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