KAIST Humanoid v0.9

KAIST Humanoid v0.9 is the latest full-size bipedal humanoid research robot from the Dynamic Robot Control & Design Laboratory (DRCD Lab) at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, led by Professor Hae-Won Park. The team designs nearly everything in-house, from the custom quasi-direct-drive actuators and planetary gearboxes to the motor drivers. Version 0.9 adds arms built with the university's RAILAB and whole-body manipulation to the walking and running skills of its predecessor, v0.7, which KAIST revealed in March 2026. In a demonstration video released on October 19, 2026, the robot walked around an athletics track pushing blocks of up to 35 kg and lifting blocks of up to 20 kg while using onboard vision, without external cameras, to assemble the letters K, A, I, S and T into the name of the university. The skills were learned with deep reinforcement learning and human demonstrations. Reports describe it as roughly 165 cm tall and 75 kg, but KAIST has not published a full specification sheet; it is a lab research platform, not a commercial product.