Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1
Wheeled dual-arm humanoid manipulator for AI research labs. Released May 2024.
Official page on rainbow-robotics.com63
Robo2u Score
140 cm
Height
6 kg
Payload
24
Degrees of freedom
180 min
Runtime
$80k
Price
Robo2u Score (0 to 100) = 35% maturity + 30% capability (DoF and payload, percentile vs the field) + 15% recency + 10% runtime + 10% availability. A spec the maker doesn't publish scores below the median. Computed from the columns shown. Scored against other humanoid robots.
Specifications
| Maker | Rainbow Robotics · company profile, $7.3B market cap |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Humanoid |
| Category | Research |
| Origin |  South Korea |
| Status | Production |
| Released | May 2024 |
| Height | 140 cm |
| Weight | 131 kg |
| Payload | 6 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 24 |
| Top speed | 1.5 m/s (5.4 km/h) |
| Runtime | 180 min |
| Price | $80k (list or reported, USD) |
| AI / compute | Open dual-PC compute architecture (official spec sheet): a real-time Robot PC handling low-level control/safety plus a User PC for building the AI development environment and running applications. Ships with robot-model, dynamics/motion libraries and URDF/MJCF models for Isaac Sim and MuJoCo, plus teleoperation/data-collection tooling for imitation learning (Learning-from-Demonstration). Positioned as a bring-your-own-model research platform 'for the generative-AI era' — no specific onboard SoC/GPU (e.g. Jetson) is published. |
Sources
Added to the database 2026-07-01. Dataset updated 2026-09-24. Also available as JSON at /api/robots.
