Kinetix AI

Market context

Kinetix AI is an early-stage humanoid builder focused on human-like whole-body control, embodied AI and service-oriented robot interaction.

Products

• KAI

Facts

• Website: https://www.kinetixai.tech/
• HQ: Shenzhen, China
• Segment: humanoid robotics

High-DOF humanoid robot company

Kinetix AI develops KAI, a full-size humanoid robot with high-degree-of-freedom motion, tactile sensing and whole-body control.

• Target environment: Homes, humanoid development labs, service environments, manipulation research settings and physical AI testbeds.
• Deployment model: Humanoid robot product development around KAI hardware, tactile sensing and robot control systems.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, humanoid developers, early enterprise users and physical AI teams.
• Workflow context: Whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, tactile interaction, household task testing and humanoid platform development.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid company with KAI positioned around whole-body control, tactile sensing, and ultra-human-like motion. Scaling depends on hardware reliability, safe interaction, customer validati…
• Market position: Humanoid robot developer focused on high-DOF dexterity and tactile interaction.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on hardware reliability, tactile system durability, manipulation performance, safety, cost and customer validation.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes full-size humanoids, tactile humanoid sensing, dexterous manipulation and physical AI robot platforms.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-04-27 - Product Launch - Kinetix AI unveils KAI full-size humanoid robot - Kinetix AI unveiled KAI, a full-size humanoid robot measuring 173 cm and weighing 70 kg. KAI features 115 degrees of freedom across the body, with 36 degrees of freedom in each dexterous hand. The robot includes full-body tactile skin with 18,000 sensing poin…
• 2026-04-01 - Research Publication - Kinetix AI and HKU MMLab publish SMASH humanoid table-tennis research - Kinetix AI and HKU MMLab presented SMASH, a humanoid table-tennis system using onboard egocentric vision. The system learns coordinated whole-body striking skills, including smashes and low crouching shots. The work reports consecutive humanoid table-tennis s…

Context tags

• Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer - Kinetix builds complete humanoid robot systems.
• Physical world model humanoid builder - Peer Group - Kinetix builds humanoid robots around physical world models and embodied AI.
• Physical world model interaction - Workflow - Kinetix enables physical world model interaction.
• Humanoid VLA interaction - Capability - Kinetix supports VLA-based humanoid interaction.
• Industrial humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - Kinetix develops humanoid robots for industrial and service settings.
• Humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - Kinetix builds humanoid robots for service interaction.
• Consumer humanoid markets - Customer Environment - Kinetix serves consumer and humanoid markets.

Articles

• Kinetix AI launches KAI humanoid - 2026-04-26 - Kinetix AI has unveiled KAI, a full-size humanoid built around high dexterity, tactile sensing and human-scale service tasks.