KAIST — Humanoid Robot Research Center (HUBO)
Creator of HUBO — the robot that won the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015, beating 22 international teams including Boston Dynamics. KAIST is Korea's top robotics research institution.
Notable achievements
HUBO (DARPA Robotics Challenge winner 2015), DRC-HUBO+, KHR series, bipedal disaster response robots, Korean Robot Industry Association founding.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Grasp stability estimation in the pre-touch stage for soft robotic grippers using object shape extracted from images
Ryogo Kai, Yuzuka Isobe, Sarthak Pathak +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots.
Lai J, Liu Y, Ren TA +5 more
Nature communications · 2026