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Native name | 레인보우로보틱스 |
|---|---|
Company type | Public |
| KRX: 277810 | |
| Industry | Robotics |
| Founded | 10 February 2011 (2011-02-10) |
| Headquarters | , South Korea |
| Products | Cobot, humanoid robot |
| Website | www |
Rainbow Robotics (Korean: 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.12 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.3 Rainbow Robotics was acquired by Samsung Electronics in March 2025.4
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.56
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.7
Other products include astronomy mount system, media service robot, medical laser robot toning system, cocktail and barista robot, cobot, mobile robot, and quadruped robot.8
References
References
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- "Regulator approves Samsung's acquisition of robotics startup - The Korea Times". www.koreatimes.co.kr. 2025-03-05. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- "최상목 "로봇 핵심부품 80% 국산화할 것…상반기 로드맵 발표"". Korea Economic Daily. 8 April 2024.
- "레인보우로보틱스, 차세대 의료용 로봇 개발 본격 진행". Maeil Economic Daily. 7 January 2025.
- "레인보우로보, 스마트공장·자동화산업전서 이동형 양팔로봇 등 공개". Chosun Ilbo. 27 March 2024.
- "레인보우로보틱스, 'IMTS 2024' 참가…美 협동로봇 시장 공략". Yonhap News. 6 September 2024.