🇰🇷 Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO)
Rainbow Robotics · South Korea · unveiled 2010
limited-production
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: medium
51.5
XHI Score
Rank #66 of 133
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%70.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%51.5
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%55.4
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%86.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%24.7
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the overall XHI. See the full methodology →
Notable
Full-size bipedal platform whose DRC-HUBO variant won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge; still sold in small numbers, distinct from Rainbow's newer wheeled RB-Y1.
Deployments & partners
- Sold as a bipedal research platform to institutions including MIT
- Team KAIST's DRC-HUBO won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge grand prize ($2M)
Specifications
Height
143.0 cm
Weight
54.0 kg
Payload
6.8 kg
Walking speed
—
Runtime
—
Battery
—
Total DoF
34
Hand DoF (per hand)
—
Dexterous hands
Yes
Actuation
electric
Form factor
bipedal
Onboard compute
—
AI model
—
Indicative price
undisclosed
Company valuation
$6.8B
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-07
- https://www.rainbow-robotics.com/en_hubo2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUBO
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-kaist-drc-hubo-won-darpa-robotics-challenge
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Data confidence: medium. Some figures for this robot rest on single or conflicting sources, or on manufacturer/aggregator material rather than independent reporting. Treat second-order specs as approximate. Fields marked “—” were genuinely undisclosed and left blank rather than estimated.