Rainbow Robotics
{{Short description|South Korean robotics company}}
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| products = Cobot, humanoid robot
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Rainbow Robotics ({{korean|hangul=레인보우로보틱스}}) is a South Korean robotics company founded in 2011 by Professor Oh Jun-ho of the HUBO Lab at the KAIST.
History
Oh Jun-ho, Professor of KAIST, founded Rainbow in 2011 with students at the KAIST Humanoid Robot Research Center.{{Cite news |date=5 April 2016 |title=[차세대 로봇 히어로] 휴보의 아버지 오준호 교수 |url=https://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/1KUX4CX999 |work=Seoul Economic Daily |publisher=}}{{Cite news |date=20 January 2024 |title=“천만원 넣었으면 2억됐다” 설마했는데…이건 진짜 ‘역대급’이다 |url=https://biz.heraldcorp.com/article/3308229 |work=Herald Business |publisher=}} 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.{{Cite news |date=27 March 2014 |title=걷고 뛰고 춤추는 휴보…`몸값 4억원` 세계 곳곳에 수출 |url=https://www.mk.co.kr/news/special-edition/6004249 |work=Maeil Business Newspaper |publisher=}}
Location
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.{{Cite news |date=8 April 2024 |title=최상목 "로봇 핵심부품 80% 국산화할 것…상반기 로드맵 발표" |url=https://www.hankyung.com/article/2024040880045 |work=Korea Economic Daily |publisher=}}{{Cite news |date=7 January 2025 |title=레인보우로보틱스, 차세대 의료용 로봇 개발 본격 진행 |url=https://www.mk.co.kr/news/business/11211958 |work=Maeil Economic Daily |publisher=}}
Product
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.{{Cite news |date=27 March 2024 |title=레인보우로보, 스마트공장·자동화산업전서 이동형 양팔로봇 등 공개 |url=https://biz.chosun.com/industry/company/2024/03/27/EVC62YKD7VBPDIJJGHHBCZD2HE/ |work=Chosun Ilbo |publisher=}}
Other products include astronomy mount system, media service robot, medical laser robot toning system, cocktail and barista robot, cobot, mobile robot, and quadruped robot.{{Cite news |date=6 September 2024 |title=레인보우로보틱스, 'IMTS 2024' 참가…美 협동로봇 시장 공략 |url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20240906035400003 |work=Yonhap News |publisher=}}
See also
References
External links
- {{Official website|https://www.rainbow-robotics.com}}
{{Electronics industry in South Korea}}
{{Robotics}}
Category:Robotics companies of South Korea
Category:Electronics companies of South Korea
Category:Companies based in Daejeon
Category:Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
Category:Electronics companies established in 2011
Category:South Korean companies established in 2011