Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2024
• Website: https://kinisi.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Kinisi develops wheeled humanoid robots for warehouse and industrial work. Its Kinisi 01 robot is designed to lift, carry and manipulate objects with human-scale reach, combining a mobile base, arm hardware and onboard AI for logistics tasks.

Market context

Represents a deployment-focused approach to automation, prioritizing practical industrial use cases over humanoid form, with a structure aligned to scalable task execution in warehouses and facilities. Proprietary mobile manipulation robotics platform.

• Capability: Industrial task automation using mobile manipulators Learning from demonstration for task acquisition Deployment in warehouse and facility environments Integration of navigation and manipulation in a single…
• Strategic position: US-based robotics company with distributed engineering footprint Focused on real-world deployment over humanoid form factor Positioned as a practical alternative to humanoid systems for near-term aut…

Products

• Kinisi 01

Facts

• Website: https://kinisi.com
• HQ: New York, United States
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: Industrial

Adaptive industrial robot company

Kinisi develops multi-purpose robots for logistics, assembly, retail, maintenance and dynamic production environments.

• Target environment: Manufacturing lines, warehouses, retail backrooms, maintenance areas and high-mix production environments.
• Deployment model: Robot platform development using real-time AI, perception and adaptable manipulation for changing workflows.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, logistics operators, retail users, industrial customers and teams seeking flexible physical automation.
• Workflow context: Heavy lifting, stacking, delicate handling, assembly, component transfer, inspection and machine feeding.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage robotics company with public product and capability positioning. Scaling depends on reliable task performance, customer pilots, support capacity, and a clear route from demonstrated capa…
• Market position: Industrial robotics company building adaptable robots for variable production and logistics tasks.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, payload and dexterity, site integration, safety, customer validation and production readiness.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes adaptive industrial robots, mobile manipulation, flexible manufacturing and physical AI workcells.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-22 - Acquisition - Bear Robotics signs definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics - Kinisi is the Bristol-based startup behind KR1, a wheeled humanoid for pick, place, sort and object-moving workflows.
• 2026-03-09 - Capability - Kinisi KR1 demonstrates learning-based handling through towel-folding task - Kinisi Robotics demonstrated KR1 performing a towel-folding task using learning-based handling rather than a fixed i…
• 2025-11-25 - Deployment - Kinisi Robotics deploys KR1 wheeled semi-humanoid for glass bottle sorting in the UK - Kinisi Robotics deployed its KR1 wheeled semi-humanoid at a UK customer site to sort glass bottles for reu…
• 2025-11-25 - Deployment - Kinisi Robotics Deploys Wheeled Humanoid for Glass Sorting - Kinisi Robotics deployed its first mobile manipulation system into a commercial glass recycling facility.
• 2025-07-14 - Product Launch - Kinisi Robotics unveils KR1 wheeled humanoid for warehouse and industrial tasks - Kinisi Robotics introduced KR1 as a wheeled humanoid-style robot for warehouse and industrial manipulation…

Team

• Bren Pierce - Founder
• Brennand Pierce - Founder & CEO

Relationships

• Bear Robotics - Acquirer - Bear Robotics signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, adding KR1 humanoid manipulation and Physical AI model work to Bear's platform.

Context tags

• Warehouse humanoid OEM - Stack Layer
• Wheeled warehouse humanoid builder - Peer Group
• Warehouse humanoid material handling - Workflow
• Wheeled dual-arm manipulation - Capability
• Wheeled humanoid OEM - Stack Layer
• Wheeled humanoid robot builder - Peer Group
• Wheeled humanoid navigation - Workflow
• Warehouses - Customer Environment

Record / Articles

• 2025-07-21 - Kinisi builds KR1 around practical warehouse humanoids - The robotics startup is building KR1 as a wheeled humanoid for logistics and manufacturing tasks, with onboard intelligence, hot-swappable batteries…