Sold as a bipedal research platform to institutions including MIT
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
🇰🇷 Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO)
Rainbow Robotics · South Korea · unveiled 2010
limited-production
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: medium
Watch changes · Evidence history · Cited research export · Plan a pilot
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 HMX. Compare it only with other humanoid robots — each category uses its own reference scales. 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.
Deployment evidence
Legacy mentions are unverified. A partnership or announcement is not proof of an active deployment. Evidence labels do not change HMX v2 scoring.
Team KAIST's DRC-HUBO won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge grand prize ($2M)
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
Specifications
Evidence is attached to each value. Robot-wide source links do not verify every field. A source about an older value cannot support the current specification.
Height
143.0 cm
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Weight
54.0 kg
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Payload
6.8 kg
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Travel speed
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Runtime
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Battery
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Total DoF
34 DoF
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Hand DoF per hand
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Dexterous hands
Yes
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Actuation
electric
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Form factor
bipedal
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Onboard compute
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
AI model
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Autonomy
supervised-autonomy
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Product status
limited-production
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Indicative price
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Funding
299.0 USD million
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Company valuation
6.8 USD billion
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) in context: rank, rivals and specs
Compare with Midea Group MIRO U →Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) is a humanoid robot from Rainbow in South Korea, and it is in limited production. It scores 51.5 on the Humanoid Metric, ranking 70th of 156.
On the leaderboard it sits between Midea Group MIRO U (HMX 51.6) and Unitree R1 (HMX 51.5).
Against the 156 humanoid robots ranked, its clearest strength is commercial readiness & deployment (86.0 against a median of 67.0) and its clearest weakness is mobility & locomotion (0.0 against 34.8).
On autonomy, it has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. 2 deployment claims are on record, none yet backed by a customer, the press or the vendor.
Its specifications carry a medium-confidence grade from 3 cited sources, as of 2026-07.
Task evidence
Task capability is not inferred from hardware specifications or general autonomy labels. Find robots for a task →
No task-specific evidence recorded. Capability remains unknown.
Sources · robot-level references, 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
Machine-readable: HIS Layer 0 manifest · what's this?
Frequently asked questions about the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO)
How much does the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) cost?
Rainbow has not published a price for the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO), and none is estimated here.
What are the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO)'s specs?
Published specifications: payload 6.8 kg, degrees of freedom 34, height 143 cm, weight 54 kg. Not published: speed, runtime and degrees of freedom per hand.
Is the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) autonomous?
The Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. The grade reflects demonstrations, not marketing claims.
How does the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) compare to the Midea Group MIRO U?
On the HMX, the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) scores 51.5 and the Midea Group MIRO U 51.6. The Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) leads on commercial readiness & deployment and ecosystem & viability; the Midea Group MIRO U leads on autonomy & intelligence, manipulation & dexterity and hardware & engineering.
Who makes the Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO)?
The Rainbow Hubo2 (DRC-HUBO) is made by Rainbow, in South Korea.
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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.