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.

 
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