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Also known as KHR-3

HUBO (; designated KHR-3) is a walking humanoid robot, head mounted on a life-size walking bipedal frame, developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and released on January 6, 2005. According to Hubo's creator Prof Jun-Ho Oh and his Plenary Session at ICRA 2012 entitled Development Outline of the Humanoid Robot: HUBO II the name Hubo is simply a name, not an abbreviation.

Key facts

Robot.name
HUBO
Robot.image
Einstein-Hubo.jpg
Robot.imsize
150px
Robot.caption
Albert HUBO, the latest humanoid version of the HUBO robots, can make expressive gestures with its 5 separate fingers.
Robot.manufacturer
KAIST
Robot.year_of_creation
2005
Korean name.hangul
휴보
Korean name.rr
Hyubo
Korean name.mr
Hyubo

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Prototypes
  • KHR-3 HUBO
  • Albert Hubo
  • Jaemi HUBO / HUBO 2
  • Specifications
  • DARPA Robotics Challenge
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

HUBO (; designated KHR-3) is a walking humanoid robot, head mounted on a life-size walking bipedal frame, developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and released on January 6, 2005. According to Hubo's creator Prof Jun-Ho Oh and his Plenary Session at ICRA 2012 entitled Development Outline of the Humanoid Robot: HUBO II the name Hubo is simply a name, not an abbreviation.

Hubo has voice recognition and synthesis faculties, as well as sophisticated vision in which its two eyes move independently of one another.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HUBO” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.