South Korea · legacy_commercial_research_platform
Summary
HUBO2 is Rainbow Robotics' full-size humanoid research platform, commercialized from South Korea's HUBO program and supplied to major research institutes (incl. MIT, Google).
Identity
Status
legacy_commercial_research_platform
Category
Humanoid
Type
Humanoid
Function
Locomotion
Audience
Researchers
Physical
HEIGHT
120cm
WEIGHT
43kg
Performance
DOF
38
BATTERY
Li-ion in chest
Systems
COMPUTE
main computer + real-time controller in chest
ACTUATION
BLDC/DC motors with harmonic reduction
Other
SENSORS
ankle 6-axis F/T + tilt, pelvis IMU, wrist 3-axis F/T, head camera
Height — ranked across 105 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #97
Weight — ranked across 88 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #61
Degrees of freedom — ranked across 89 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #34
Comparable systems — same status tier
Context & Benchmark
Comparable systems: Haribit (Haribit), TORO (DLR), SA01 (EngineAI), TALOS (PAL Robotics), MagicBot Z1 (MagicLab), PM01 (EngineAI). Related systems: Figure 03 (Figure AI), R1 (Unitree), Lumos LUS 2 (Lumos Robotics), Kengo (Galaxea Dynamics), MenteeBot (Mentee Robotics), H1 (Unitree).
Research
PAPER (01 Mar 2014) — 'Improvement Trend of a Humanoid Robot Platform HUBO2+': reviews improvement trends for the HUBO2+ platform; named evaluation platform is HUBO2 from Rainbow Robotics.