Kepler's Forerunner K2, the company's fifth-generation humanoid robot, launched at GITEX GLOBAL 2024 in Dubai with significant improvements over the K1. Standing 178 cm tall and weighing 85 kg, the K2 targets industrial automation with enhanced precision and intelligence.
The K2 features 52 degrees of freedom. A substantial increase from earlier models. Tactile hands equipped with 96 sensors per fingertip provide unprecedented dexterity, while proprietary Dexterous Hands offer 11 DOF per hand with 25 force-sensing contact points per finger and six-axis force/torque sensors at each wrist. Payload capacity reaches 15 kg per arm (30 kg total with both arms).
Computing power reaches 100 TOPS for autonomous task execution. The embodied intelligence software advances dynamic perception, strategic task planning, full-body coordinated operation, autonomous learning, and motion control. By integrating cloud-based cognitive models with embodied control and employing both imitation and reinforcement learning, the K2 has nearly mastered autonomous task completion in specific scenarios.
The K2's 2.33 kWh battery delivers up to 8 hours of continuous operation with just one hour of charging. Priced at $30,000, Kepler positions the K2 to perform work equivalent to approximately 1.5 full-time human employees. Over 80% of core hardware is developed in-house, supporting vertical integration to lower costs. The K2 Bumblebee variant, showcased at ICRA 2025, weighs 75 kg with updated specifications for research applications.
