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2024 Sangju Marathon
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**RAIBO2 became the first ever quadruped robot to complete a full marathon!**

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On **November 17, 2024**, RAIBO2 successfully completed a **full marathon** (42.195 km) during the `Sangju Gotgam Marathon <https://time.spct.kr/m2.php?EVENT_NO=20241117017&TargetYear=2024&currentPage=1&BIB_NO=042004>`_.
Powered by a 16s10p Li-ion battery, the robot completed the course in **4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds on a single charge**, handling slopes of up to 10 degrees.
The operation team, consisting of a controller, camera operator, and crowd support, collaboratively managed the robot, with each member covering 10 km segments.

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2023 Innovate Korea
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The 2023 Innovate Korea event was held under the theme of "Our Future" with a number of famous
Congressmen, KAIST presidents, and Ncsoft president. Raibo participated in the event as three KAIST robot brothers. Raibo quickly climbed up and down a 20cm-high stairs and perform 2m/s
high-speed walk successfully at demonstration.

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Nature 2023
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Our work was spotlighted on the `nature news article <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00710-0>`_

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News Media
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Our work was highlighted on numerous broadcast media

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Development and Related Research of RaiBo at KAIST (2023.06.22)

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Locomotion Controller Training with Reinforcement Learning & RaiSim (2021.01.19)

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