F&G Venture is a private equity firm. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Kinetix AI.
Round size: $75M
Kinetix AI secured $75 million in an Angel+ round led by Vertex Ventures, with F&G Venture and Wanshi Capital also participating. The startup, founded in September 2025 and now nearly 200 employees, will use the funding to scale its closed data-model-hardware loop for ultra-realistic humanoid robots. Its flagship KAIBot stands 1.73 meters tall with 115 degrees of freedom, and the company's system demonstrated table tennis play against world champion Ding Ning at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games.
Kinetix AI, a Chinese embodied AI startup focused on highly humanoid robots, has raised over 500 million yuan (approximately $74.5 million) in an angel+ funding round led by Temasek-backed Vertex Ventures, with participation from F&G Venture and Wanshi Capital. Founded in September 2025, the company unveiled its first full-size humanoid robot KAIBot (1.73m tall, 115 degrees of freedom) and plans to use the funds to accelerate iteration across data, models, and hardware while pursuing commercialization.
Kinetix AI has teased KAI, their humanoid robot claiming unprecedented degrees of freedom compared to any existing humanoid. The robot features a hybrid dexterous hand and 18,000 sensors distributed throughout a soft, flexible body, representing what Kinetix describes as the most human-like clone to date. No funding details or commercial availability timeline were disclosed.