Kinisi KR1
The Kinisi KR1 is a wheeled humanoid robot from Kinisi Robotics (Santa Cruz, California), designed for warehouse, retail, and light manufacturing environments. At 162 cm tall and 100 kg with a 10 kg payload and IP65 rating, the KR1 reaches 10.8 km/h and runs 8 hours per charge with hot-swappable batteries enabling 24/7 deployment. The robot uses LiDAR-based SLAM, onboard local LLM reasoning, and can be taught new tasks through natural demonstration without coding.
Primary use case: Warehouse fulfillment, retail stocking, light manufacturing, maintenance
Height
162 cm
Weight
100 kg
DOF
21
Payload
25 kg
Battery
8 hrs
Price
$75K
Specifications
Physical
Height
162 cm
Weight
100 kg
Degrees of Freedom
21
Locomotion
wheeled
Max Speed
14.4 km/h
Manipulation
Payload
25 kg
Max Lift/Arm
20 kg
Power & Autonomy
Battery Life
8 hrs
Commercial
Price
$75K
Availability
Limited
Primary Use Case
Warehouse fulfillment, retail stocking, light manufacturing, maintenance
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Bear Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, a UK-based humanoid robot company. The acquisition will bring Kinisi's KR1 humanoid robot, its Bristol-based engineering team, and physical AI capabilities into Bear Robotics' portfolio. The transaction is expected to complete soon and will create an end-to-end physical AI robotics platform.
Bear Robotics doubles down: 16,000 robots deployed and humanoids rejoin via Kinisi comeback
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Kinisi KR1 Humanoid Starts Crankshaft Bearing Assembly for Major Global Automaker
Kinisi's KR1 wheeled humanoid robot has begun performing precision crankshaft bearing assembly for a major global automaker at the company's Bristol, England facility, marking what appears to be the first disclosed instance of a demonstration-trained humanoid robot performing engine-component assembly rather than warehouse logistics. The robot uses a VLA model combined with a Robot Foundation Model, learning tasks from a single day of human demonstrations captured via a proprietary data-collection glove that captures force profiles alongside positional information.
