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RBQ-10
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CommercialSouth KoreaSupervised

Rainbow Robotics · robot dog

RBQ-10

A 42 kg IP54 outdoor quadruped running up to 14 km/h, with 3D lidar and self-charging, and a 2-hour battery extendable to 4. The launch year is uncertain (shown at IMTS 2024). An RBQ-10W wheel-legged version exists.

Price
—not published
Height
62 cmTaller than 64%
Weight
42 kgHeavier than 63%
Payload
15 kgCarries more than 52%
Speed
14.0 km/hFaster than 62%
Battery
2 hRuns longer than 36%

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Why it matters

The only quadruped among Korea's '10 best machinery technologies' of 2025.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2024
Released
Not yet
Shown at IMTS 2024

Maker

Rainbow RoboticsCompany · founded 2011 · Sejong, South Korea

Public company (KOSDAQ 277810, listed Feb 2021); Samsung Electronics invested Jan 2023 and made it a subsidiary in Dec 2024.

How it stacks up

Against other robot dogs that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Not published by the maker: joints, price.

Public attention

A hidden gem: a recent robot with full published specs that gets little attention so far.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Walks on legs
How it runs
Supervised. It can walk set routes and dock to charge on its own, but in practice it is often steered or monitored by an operator.
Sensors & vision
3D lidar and depth cameras; optional PTZ, thermal, lighting and speaker modules
Battery & power
Autonomous docking and charging based on battery level
Materials & build
IP54
AI & software
Dynamics-based and AI gait control; APIs from joint-level (LV0) to gait (LV1); ROS 2 and DDS; simulation support
Other details
Wheeled variant RBQ-10W also offered

Lineage

Every Rainbow Robotics machine in order.

  1. RBQ-10RBQ-102024Commercial
  2. RB-01K counter-terrorism multi-legged robotRB-01K counter-terrorism multi-legged robot2024Prototype

Watch RBQ-10

Video: Rainbow Robotics (@rainbowrobotics) on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not publishednot published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Sold or delivered
Sold; units not published
Where it is sold or used
Daejeon, South Korea

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose

Full comparison
MeasureRBQ-10RBQ-10Rainbow RoboticsB2B2Unitree RoboticsSame job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar sizeJueying X30Jueying X30DEEP RoboticsSame job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar sizeD1 (Pro, Edu, Ultra, Max)D1 (Pro, Edu, Ultra, Max)AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)Same job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots
First shown20242023-11-032023-10-172024
StatusCommercialCommercialCommercialCommercial
Height62 cm65 cm47 cm—
Weight42 kg60 kg56 kg16 kg
Joints————
Speed14 km/h21.6 km/h14.4 km/h13.3 km/h
Payload15 kg40 kg—5 kg
Battery2 h6 h4 h—
Price———$4,599

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Rainbow Robotics RBQ-10 Rainbow Robotics RBQ-10W Venture Square Rainbow Robotics RBQ series selected among Korea's 10 best machinery technologies rainbow-robotics.com RBQ-10: how it is operated Rainbow Robotics RBQ-10

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