A rubbing apparatus and method for liquid crystal display panels are
provided. The apparatus includes at least one cassette for keeping at
least one mother substrate to be rubbed, an internal port for keeping at
least one dummy substrate for performing alignment of a rubbing material,
at least one rubbing unit for receiving the at least one mother substrate
from the at least one cassette to perform a rubbing thereon using the
rubbing material, or receiving the at least one dummy substrate from the
internal port to perform an alignment process of the rubbing material,
and a robot for transferring or returning the at least one mother
substrate kept in the at least one cassette, the at least one dummy
substrate kept in the internal port, the at least one mother substrate
which has been rubbed in the at least one rubbing unit, or the at least
one dummy substrate on which the alignment process of the rubbing
material has been performed
