Facts

• Company: Kinisi
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: prototype
• Website: https://www.kinisi.ai

Profile sections

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

Summary

Kinisi 01 is Kinisi wheeled humanoid robot for warehouse work. It is designed to lift, carry and manipulate objects with human-scale reach, combining a mobile base, onboard AI and manipulation hardware for logistics and material-handling tasks.

Overview

Kinisi 01 is Kinisi wheeled humanoid robot for warehouse work. It is designed to lift, carry and manipulate objects with human-scale reach, combining a mobile base, onboard AI and manipulation hardware for logistics and material-handling tasks.

Market context

Kinisi 01 is Kinisi's wheeled dual-arm mobile manipulator for repetitive physical tasks in structured industrial environments.

• Target environment: Factories, warehouses, labs and controlled indoor workspaces where wheeled mobility is practical.
• Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, material handling, dual-arm manipulation, repetitive task execution and facility support work.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, logistics teams, research labs and partners evaluating mobile manipulation without bipedal locomotion.
• Deployment model: Prototype mobile manipulator platform positioned around practical indoor task automation.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage product with public product identity and limited commercial deployment evidence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, fleet integration, manipulation accuracy, safety, payloads and site preparation.
• Market position: Wheeled mobile-manipulation lane that avoids humanoid walking while retaining two-arm task capability.
• Adjacent products: Diligent Moxi, Stretch RE2, Quanta X2, Toyota HSR

Audience

Warehouses

Workflow

Autonomous navigation, material handling, dual-arm manipulation, repetitive task execution and facility support work.

Capability

Mobile manipulation

Deployment environment

Factories, warehouses, labs and controlled indoor workspaces where wheeled mobility is practical.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Warehouses
• Workflow: Autonomous navigation, material handling, dual-arm manipulation, repetitive task execution and facility support work.
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factories, warehouses, labs and controlled indoor workspaces where wheeled mobility is practical.

Specifications

• Speed: 2.4 m/s
• Payload Capacity: 25 kg dynamic payload / 40 kg static load
• Battery System: Hot-swappable 48 V Li-ion modular pack, 20 Ah
• Runtime: 6 to 8 hours under typical industrial duty cycles
• Charging: Rapid charge to 80% in 90 minutes using CC/CV smart charger
• Compute Model: NVIDIA Jetson
• Sensors Summary: Stereo depth cameras, 180° LiDAR array with SLAM integration, and ±2 mm depth accuracy at 2 m
• Actuation: Compact wave gear arm modules with integrated encoders
• Gripper: Modular quick-swap interface with vacuum end-effector support
• Operation Modes: Autonomous, semi-autonomous, and tele-operated Shadow Play mode
• Communication: Encrypted cloud telemetry via Kinisi Mission Control, real-time task updates, and over-the-air firmware
• Safety Features: Dual safety controllers and watchdogs, emergency stop, continuous thermal/current diagnostics, automatic deceleration, and posture lock on critical alerts

Tags

• Peer Group: Mobile manipulation robot
• Workflow: Warehouse material handling, Dexterous grasping
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment Environment: Warehouse environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2025-07-21 - Article - Kinisi builds KR1 around practical warehouse humanoids

Timeline / Research

• 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…
• 2025-07-14 - 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…

Comparable Systems

• Proxie Gen 2 - Collaborative Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• FlashBot Arm - Pudu Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• Spaceo M1 - Muks Robotics AI Pvt. Ltd. - Mobile Manipulator
• Reachy 2 - Pollen Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• TRON 2 - LimX Dynamics - Mobile Manipulator
• Kaleido Mobile Manipulator - Kawasaki Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• Quanta X2 - X Square Robot - Mobile Manipulator