Facts

• Company: Rainbow Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: legacy_commercial_research_platform
• Capability focus: Humanoid Research
• Website: https://www.rainbow-robotics.com/en_hubo2

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

HUBO2 is Rainbow Robotics full-size humanoid research platform. Commercialized from South Korea HUBO humanoid program, it has been supplied to major research institutes for work on bipedal walking, manipulation and humanoid control.

Overview

HUBO2 is Rainbow Robotics full-size humanoid research platform. Commercialized from South Korea HUBO humanoid program, it has been supplied to major research institutes for work on bipedal walking, manipulation and humanoid control.

Market context

Compact humanoid research platform from Rainbow Robotics for bipedal robotics education and research.

• Target environment: Humanoid robotics labs, universities, research institutes and controlled indoor test environments.
• Workflow context: Bipedal locomotion research, whole-body control, humanoid manipulation education and experimental robot behaviors.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, universities and institutions needing a commercial humanoid research platform.
• Deployment model: Legacy commercial research platform sold as a humanoid robotics system, not a current industrial deployment robot.
• Commercial maturity: Fielded research platform with official Rainbow Robotics specifications and historical research adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption is constrained by legacy platform age, support availability, research fit and the gap between lab demos and commercial task deployment.
• Market position: Early commercial humanoid research platform, distinct from newer warehouse and factory humanoid systems.
• Adjacent products: HUBO2 Plus, DRC-HUBO, ROBOTIS OP, Rainbow RB-Y1

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Bipedal locomotion research, whole-body control, humanoid manipulation education and experimental robot behaviors.

Capability

humanoid research

Deployment environment

Humanoid robotics labs, universities, research institutes and controlled indoor test environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Bipedal locomotion research, whole-body control, humanoid manipulation education and experimental robot behaviors.
• Capability: humanoid research
• Deployment environment: Humanoid robotics labs, universities, research institutes and controlled indoor test environments.

Specifications

• Height: 120 cm
• Weight: 43 kg
• Battery System: Li-ion battery on the chest
• Compute Model: Main computer and real-time controller on the chest
• Height Cm: 120 cm
• Weight Kg: 43 kg
• Total Dof: 38 DoF
• Actuation: BLDC and DC motor actuators with harmonic reduction gearing
• Sensors Summary: Ankle 6-axis force/torque with tilt sensor, pelvis inertial sensor, wrist 3-axis force/torque sensor and head camera
• Compute: Main computer and real-time controller in the chest
• Battery: Li-ion battery in the chest

Tags

• Peer Group: Humanoid research platform
• Capability: Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2015-09-21 - Research Publication - DRC-HUBO+ vision paper details depth-processing system for disaster-response tasks - The paper presents a vision system and depth-processing algorithm for DRC-HUBO+, the robot platfor…
• 2014-03-01 - Research Publication - Improvement Trend of a Humanoid Robot Platform HUBO2+ - The paper reviews improvement trends for the HUBO2+ humanoid robot platform.

Comparable Systems

• TORO (TOrque-controlled humanoid RObot) - DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Anthropomorphic Biped
• SA01 - ENGINEAI - Humanoid