Rainbow Robotics News
Latest Rainbow Robotics news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 9 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Rainbow Robotics
Rainbow Robotics is a South Korean robot platform company founded in 2011 by researchers from the KAIST HUBO Lab. It develops collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, quadrupeds and the RB-Y1 dual-arm mobile manipulator. In 2024 Samsung Electronics raised its stake to about 35% and made Rainbow Robotics a subsidiary, naming robotics a core future growth area.
Key facts
Products by Rainbow Robotics
- RB-Y1 (Robot, 2024) — RB-Y1 is Rainbow Robotics' bimanual mobile manipulator, the first developed in Korea. It pairs two 7-DOF arms (3 kg payload each) and a 6-DOF waist on a high-sp...
Latest Rainbow Robotics news
- AL.Robot's $35M Kosdaq IPO Shows Where the Humanoid Boom's Real Money Sits — South Korean sensor maker AL.Robot drew 871-to-1 institutional demand for its Kosdaq listing, a sign investors see component suppliers to collaborativ...
- South Korea's KIST Builds KAPEX Humanoid With 90% Domestic Parts, Hands Tech to LG — KIST's Lee Jong-won wins Korea's November science award for KAPEX, a humanoid built with over 90% domestic components, now being commercialized by an...
- Diden Robotics' Spider Climbs Steel Ship Hulls With Magnetic Feet to Weld and Inspect — South Korean startup Diden Robotics showed its Spider quadruped climbing vertical steel ship walls at RoboWorld 2026, carrying 30kg of welding and ins...
- South Korea Opens Its First Humanoid Robot Data Factory, With 12 Robots Feeding a National AI Push — KIMM and ETRI opened a 12-robot facility on November 3 to generate training data for humanoid AI, part of Korea's K-Moonshot push to cut reliance on f...
- RobotWorld 2026 Pits Korea's Factory-Ready Robots Against China's Crowd-Pleasers — At RobotWorld 2026 in Goyang, Rainbow Robotics and other Korean makers pitched endurance and payload against China's Unitree, which drew crowds with d...
- Rainbow Robotics' RBQ-10 Vaults Onto a 1-Meter Platform, Ahead of 2027 Mass Production — At RobotWorld 2026 in South Korea, Rainbow Robotics showed its 42kg RBQ-10 quadruped leaping onto a 1-meter platform after 30 units completed proof-of...
- Korean Quadrupeds Join Combat Drills As Rainbow, Lion And Ghost Race For The Battlefield — South Korea's Rainbow Robotics, Lion Robotics and LIG Nex1's Ghost Robotics are training four-legged robots alongside tanks and Marines as Seoul races...
- Samsung Launches RX Humanoid Robotics Division Under CEO TM Roh — Samsung Electronics officially launched its Robotics eXperience (RX) division on July 21, backing it with the factory-tested Shallow-π VLA model and a...
- Samsung's Rainbow Robotics Pilots RB-Y1 Dual-Arm Robot at Coupang — Samsung-controlled Rainbow Robotics has placed its RB-Y1 dual-arm mobile manipulator inside a Coupang fulfillment center for its first reported commer...