Rainbow Robotics

Rainbow Robotics is a South Korean robotics company based in Daejeon, established in 2011 by Professor Oh Jun-ho and students from KAIST's Humanoid Robot Research Center, which developed the HUBO bipedal humanoid. A HUBO-based robot won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. The company's products include collaborative robots, mobile robots, quadruped robots and research humanoids. It is listed on the Korea Exchange, and Samsung Electronics became its controlling shareholder in 2025.

Headquarters

Daejeon · SOUTH KOREA / KR

Incorporation

UNKNOWN

Other locations

NOT RECORDED

Founded

2011

Business model

UNKNOWN

Humanoid deployment

UNKNOWN

Public company

YES · KRX: 277810

Parent

Samsung Electronics

Ownership: Controlling shareholder; regulatory approval of Samsung Electronics' acquisition of control reported on 5 March 2025.