RB-Y1
Wheeled bimanual humanoid from the HUBO team.
hopefully coming soon
Illustrative only. Real financing terms depend on unit, buyer profile, and maker's approved lender network.
Wheeled bimanual humanoid from the HUBO team.
RB-Y1 is Rainbow Robotics' bimanual mobile manipulator — a humanoid dual-arm torso on a fast wheeled base, from the KAIST HUBO team that won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. Two 7-DoF arms sit on a 6-DoF body 'leg' that raises the torso more than 50 cm to reach different heights, while the base can lean into turns at up to 2.5 m/s. Rainbow opened pre-orders in 2024 at about $80,000, positioning it as a research and industrial-automation platform with ROS 2 support and a master-slave data arm; it has gone to universities including MIT, UC Berkeley, and Georgia Tech, to factory trials at Samsung and Toyota, and in 2026 to a first warehouse pilot at a Coupang fulfillment center. Rainbow is now a Samsung Electronics subsidiary (Samsung owns about 35%) and anchors Samsung's July 2026 'RX' humanoid push.
- ◆Two 7-DoF arms on a 6-DoF body 'leg'
- ◆Wheeled base to 2.5 m/s; leans into turns
- ◆Pre-orders from ~$80,000; MIT, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech adopters
- ◆First warehouse pilot at Coupang (2026); Samsung/Toyota factory trials
- ◆Samsung subsidiary (~35%); core of Samsung 'RX'
Rainbow Robotics spun out of KAIST's HUBO Lab, whose DRC-HUBO won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. Listed on Korea's KOSDAQ (277810), it became a Samsung Electronics subsidiary in 2025 with Samsung holding roughly 35%, and it anchors Samsung's July 2026 'RX' humanoid commercialization push. Its RB-Y1 pairs a humanoid dual-arm torso with a fast wheeled base.
RB-Y1 in motion
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