Workflows: Warehouse material handling, Dexterous grasping
Operating environments: Warehouse environment
Target markets: 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.
Pick and place - Demonstrated - 2026-03-09 - The demonstration showed the robot manipulating deformable household material, a harder class of task than rigid pick-and-place. - source: youtube.com
Object manipulation - Claimed - 2025-07-14 - Kinisi Robotics introduced KR1 as a wheeled humanoid-style robot for warehouse and industrial manipulation tasks. - source: interestingengineering.com
Object sorting and classification - Customer-site use - 2025-11-25 - Kinisi Robotics deployed its KR1 wheeled semi-humanoid at a UK customer site to sort glass bottles for reuse. - source: humanoidsdaily.com