🔬 Global Robotics Research Directory
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Clear filters📍 Daejeon, South Korea
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.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
Developing Ballie — a rolling home AI robot — and GEMS exoskeleton for walking assistance. Samsung has invested billions in robotics as a next growth platform beyond consumer electronics.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
Owns Boston Dynamics and has become one of the world's largest robotics investors. Hyundai is integrating Spot and Stretch into its own factories and developing next-generation mobility robots.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
Korea's leading surgical and haptic robotics lab. SNU developed one of the most capable teleoperated surgical robot platforms in Asia, with sub-millimeter precision for microsurgery.
📍 Pohang, South Korea
Korea's leader in soft and micro-scale robotics. POSTECH developed soft robots inspired by marine invertebrates for medical and exploration applications, with several Nature publications.
📍 Seongnam, South Korea
Korea's most advanced robotics lab for indoor autonomy. NAVER's 1784 building is the world's first "robot-friendly building" with 100+ autonomous service robots fully integrated into the architecture.
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
Professor Hyun Myung's research team at KAIST focuses on quadrupedal robotics and reinforcement learning-based control. The lab develops small legged robots with advanced learning algorithms for autonomous navigation and decision-making.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
Led by Joseph J. Lim at KAIST, CLVR develops intelligent robotic systems that make sequential decisions through perception, action, and reasoning. The lab focuses on reinforcement learning, world models with representation learning, visual perception, and symbolic manipulation.
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
IRIS at KAIST develops advanced robotic technologies for real-world field applications including disaster response, construction, mining, and agriculture. The lab focuses on principles and technologies for interactive robotic systems that improve human lives.
📍 Gumi, South Korea
Specialized research institute focused on robotics technology development with dedicated centers for medical service robotics. Established Medical Service Robotics Research Center in Gumi in 2013.
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
Develops AI-based autonomous manipulation technology and human-robot cooperation systems for next-generation robots. Part of KIMM government research institute.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
University-based engineering research institute conducting advanced robotics research including autonomous systems and manipulation. Actively involved in robotics and AI development projects.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
The Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute at KIST is a national research institute focused on developing advanced robotics technologies. The institute conducts research in service robots, wearable robots, autonomous systems, and AI-driven manipulation.
📍 Seongnam, South Korea
KETI's Intelligent Robotics Research Center conducts research in robotic service technology, industrial systems, and advanced robot intelligence. The center focuses on intrinsic robot technologies including mobility, manipulation, perception, and human-robot interaction.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
Seoul National University's robotics programs feature strong research in robot perception, human-robot interaction, and surgical robotics. The Institute of Engineering Research conducts collaborative robotics research across multiple departments.
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
KAIST Institute for Robotics consists of eight research laboratories pursuing robot intelligence across multiple domains including humanoid robotics, artificial intelligence, and telerobotics. The institute focuses on creating intelligent robotic systems with advanced perception and control capabilities.
📍 Pohang, South Korea
POSTECH Center for Intelligent Robot has been a major research focus since the university's founding in 1986. Originally established as ROPAC (Robotics and Process Automation Center), it was renamed in 2002 and aims to be a world-class center in intelligent robot technology and control.
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
The Robot Intelligence Technology Lab (RITL) at KAIST conducts research on robot intelligence, perception, and control. The lab focuses on developing advanced robotic systems with enhanced learning and reasoning capabilities.
📍 Seoul, South Korea
PIER Lab at KIST studies how robots can physically interact with and perceive the real world. The lab bridges AI and embodied intelligence through force-aware sensing, visuomotor policies, and whole-body control for agile contact-rich manipulation.