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DRC-HUBO+
DRC-HUBO+
Last updated: September 2, 2026
Locomotion Type
Hybrid
Stage
Demo
Height
170 cm
Degrees of Freedom
32 DOF
Weight
80 kg
Max Speed
1.5 km/h
Price
$333,913
Release Year
2015
Computing
Intel NUC PC for head sensing and for motion Linux OS and PODO (a customized motion control framework developed at KAIST)
Sensors
Rainbow Robotics force/torque sensors at the end of each limb. ADIS-16480 inertial measurement unit (IMU). KVH-1750 fiber-optic gyro. Two optical flow sensors on shins. Camera and Hokuyo 2D lidar.
DRC-HUBO+ is the KAIST humanoid developed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (2015), featuring variable wheel-foot legs that switch between bipedal walking and wheeled kneeling modes. About 1.7 m standing (1.38 m wheeled/kneeling), 80 kg, 32 DOF, it won first place in the 2015 DRC finals.
Application Scenarios
Disaster-response robotics competition and research.
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