KAIST Dynamic Robot Control and Design Lab · robot dog
KAIST Hound
A 45 kg high-speed research quadruped controlled by a single reinforcement-learning policy. The speed is the average over its record 100 m run.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 45 kgHeavier than 66%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 18.1 km/hFaster than 88%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 m by a quadruped robot: 19.87 s (October 2023).
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
KAIST Dynamic Robot Control and Design LabUniversity lab · Daejeon, South KoreaHow it stacks up
Against other robot dogs that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
KAIST Hound is heavier than 66% of the 41 other robot dogs that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
KAIST Hound is faster than 88% of the 34 other robot dogs that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention KAIST Hound gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. Researchers commanded its runs while its learned controller handled the gait and balance.
- Actuators & motors
- Electric motors with a gear train chosen by mixed-integer optimisation of gear ratio, geometry and motor heat limits
- Other details
- 45 kg research quadruped built for fast outdoor running
From the maker
KAIST Hound is the only machine from KAIST Dynamic Robot Control and Design Lab in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Research prototype(s)
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Sources
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