DRC-HUBO+

The DRC-HUBO+ is the DARPA Robotics Challenge-winning humanoid robot developed by Team KAIST at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. It won first place and the $2 million prize at the DRC Finals in Pomona, California on June 6, 2015, completing all eight disaster-response tasks faster than any competitor. Its key innovation is the ability to transform between a walking bipedal posture and a wheeled kneeling posture — it drops to its knees and rolls on built-in knee wheels for fast, stable traversal, then stands up to use its arms and climb stairs. Built on the HUBO 2 (KHR-4) platform originally released in 2005, it represents over 15 years of humanoid research at KAIST led by Professor Jun-Ho Oh.