Facts

• Company: Kepler Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: pilot
• Website: https://www.gotokepler.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Kepler K2 is Kepler Robotics Forerunner-series humanoid robot for industrial and commercial applications. It is designed for manufacturing, logistics, hazardous operations and research, with bipedal or wheeled configurations depending on deployment needs.

Overview

Kepler K2 is Kepler Robotics Forerunner-series humanoid robot for industrial and commercial applications. It is designed for manufacturing, logistics, hazardous operations and research, with bipedal or wheeled configurations depending on deployment needs.

Market context

Kepler K2 is Kepler Robotics' humanoid robot platform for embodied AI, bipedal locomotion and manipulation development.

• Target environment: Robotics labs, controlled commercial environments and humanoid development settings.
• Workflow context: Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, human-robot interaction and embodied AI development.
• Deployment model: Humanoid robot platform used for development, demonstrations and early task validation.
• Commercial maturity: Public humanoid product with company-provided product material.
• Adoption constraints: Requires controlled deployment, task-specific software, safety validation, manipulation maturity and customer-site integration.
• Market position: Humanoid platform positioned around Kepler's broader push into embodied robotics systems.
• Adjacent products: Humanoid robot for embodied AI research, bipedal movement and manipulation tasks.

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, human-robot interaction and embodied AI development.

Capability

Whole-body control

Deployment environment

Robotics labs, controlled commercial environments and humanoid development settings.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, human-robot interaction and embodied AI development.
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment environment: Robotics labs, controlled commercial environments and humanoid development settings.

Specifications

• Height: 175 cm
• Weight: Approximately 75 kg
• Dof: 52
• Payload Capacity: 30 kg maximum dual-arm load
• Speed: Over 1.1 m/s
• Battery Capacity: 2.33 kWh
• Manipulation: NimbleMaster 11-DoF tactile dexterous hand
• Hand Dof: 11 DoF
• Actuation: Self-developed joint modules with maximum joint torque over 220 Nm

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2025-09-26 - Article - Kepler moves K2 Bumblebee into mass production

Timeline / Research

• 2025-12-06 - Deployment - Kepler K2 Humanoid Robot Deployed at VEICHI's Digital Factory - Kepler's K2 humanoid robot began operations at VEICHI's Phase III digital factory.
• 2025-09-26 - Production Milestone - Kepler Robotics begins mass production of K2 'Bumblebee' humanoid robot - • Kepler Robotics commenced mass production of its K2 'Bumblebee' humanoid robot on September 26, 2025.
• 2025-08-01 - Demonstration - Kepler's K2 "Bumblebee" completes 8-hour livestream at WAIC 2025 - Kepler said its Forerunner K2 "Bumblebee" completed an 8-hour livestream at WAIC 2025.
• 2025-06-24 - Deployment - Kepler Forerunner K2 enters SAIC-GM factory testing - The named site context makes this a deployment/testing event rather than a generic demo.
• 2025-06-03 - Demonstration - Kepler showcases K2 "Bumblebee" humanoid robot at ICRA 2025 - Kepler presented its K2 "Bumblebee" humanoid robot at ICRA 2025.
• 2024-10-21 - Product Launch - Kepler launches Forerunner K2 humanoid robot at GITEX GLOBAL 2024 - Kepler launched its full-sized general-purpose humanoid robot, the Forerunner K2, around GITEX GLOBAL 2024.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Production And Customer Shipments - mass production and customer shipments started - 2025-09-26 - Kepler Robotics announced that K2 Bumblebee had started mass production and begun shipping to customers, but the release…
• Factory Testing Status - 1 SAIC-GM factory testing site - 2025-06-24 - SAIC-GM - automotive factory testing - Kepler Forerunner K2 operated at an SAIC-GM plant for quality checks and assembly support in a live automotiv…

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• Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid
• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S2 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform