DRC-HUBO

DRC-HUBO is a transformable humanoid disaster-response robot developed by Team KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in partnership with Rainbow, Inc., built on the HUBO 2 (KHR-4) platform. It won first place and the $2 million grand prize at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in June 2015, completing all eight disaster-response tasks faster than any competitor. The robot's key innovation is its ability to transform between bipedal walking and a wheeled kneeling posture using built-in knee wheels. During the DRC, it was operated by a trio of human operators under high-latency, low-bandwidth teleoperation conditions — making it a teleoperated/supervised system rather than an autonomous one. It is not commercially available and remains a research platform.