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South Korea // Advanced Sumo

KAIST Hanbit

Low, fast, immovable.

KAIST // Daejeon

Crew
3
Robots
1
Track
Advanced Sumo
Founded
2024
To Dhahran
7,231 km

Robot catalog

The machine

TM-U01

In testing
Hanbit-3Max-downforce blade sumo // 3 kgA featherweight sumo generating downforce through a magnet-assisted skirt, with a hardened scoop blade tuned to slide under rivals on contact.
Downforce
Magnet skirt
Drive
Geared DC
Blade
Hardened scoop
Mass
3.0 kg

The crew

Who's behind the build

  • Park Ji-hoTeam lead · Mechanical
  • Seo Min-junControls
  • Han Soo-ahElectronics

Team dossier

KAIST's mechatronics team treats sumo as a pure optimisation problem: every gram is accounted for, and the whole robot is tuned around getting under the opponent first. Hanbit's blade profile is re-cut for each ring surface.

Their track: Advanced Sumo

From the pit // shot list

  • 01Blade re-cut
  • 02Downforce test
  • 03Ring practice
  • 04Team

Planned coverage. No pit photography exists yet.

One of the crews entered for the RoboNexus World Championship.

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