Kinisi Robotics · United States · Wheeled base
KR1
The Kinisi KR1 is a US-built wheeled humanoid (a dual-arm mobile manipulator on a wheeled base rather than a bipedal robot) aimed squarely at warehouse and light-manufacturing material handling.
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Grippers, not dexterous hands
The KR1 does not have humanlike hands. Each arm ends in a modular, swappable end-effector: a simple two-finger gripper (roughly 2 DoF at the hand) with vacuum-tool options for different SKUs. End-effectors are chosen and configured for the pilot's task, not sold as separate consumer add-ons with a published price.
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Reality check
You are signing up for a managed pilot of an early wheeled manipulator that is still slower than a human at real tasks (Kinisi's own head of product said so during its first glass-sorting deployment), and the company was just acquired by Bear Robotics, so what you are really buying is a pilot on a platform whose roadmap now belongs to Bear.
Can you get one, and what will it cost?
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You cannot order the KR1 today: it is b2b only.
Only enterprises in logistics, warehousing, retail replenishment, and light manufacturing can engage, and only through a paid pilot program. There is no consumer or developer purchase path. As of late June 2026 Kinisi agreed to be acquired by Bear Robotics (majority-owned by LG), so the KR1 is being folded into Bear's fleet platform rather than sold as a standalone unit.
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Catalog checked 2026-09
Businesses and institutions only. Confirm eligibility and configuration with the seller.
Only enterprises in logistics, warehousing, retail replenishment, and light manufacturing can engage, and only through a paid pilot program. There is no consumer or developer purchase path. As of late June 2026 Kinisi agreed to be acquired by Bear Robotics (majority-owned by LG), so the KR1 is being folded into Bear's fleet platform rather than sold as a standalone unit.
Price notes: No published price today. Before Bear Robotics acquired it in mid-2026, Kinisi listed the KR1 at $75,000 or about $4,000/month robot-as-a-service, both through paid pilots only. kinisi.com now redirects to Bear's Kinisi page, which shows no price, only a contact-sales route, and lists payload, reach and mobility as 'to be confirmed at launch' (checked 30 Sep 2026), so treat the old list price as history rather than an offer.
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United States
Enterprise contact only since the acquisition: no price, no cart, and specifications to be confirmed at launch (checked 30 Sep 2026). Deployment and support run through Bear's fleet platform.
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How the KR1 rates
Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.
- Class
- Frontier machineA cutting-edge full-scale humanoid aimed at real work. Mostly enterprise, or still proving out.
- CapabilityHardware specification indicators
- 3/5
- Baseline: any humanoid+1
- Degrees of freedom: 21 DOF+1
- Dexterity: grippers, not dexterous hands+0.25
- Scale: 162 cm tall+0.75
Key specifications
Height
162 cm
Width
60 cm
Depth
70 cm
Weight
100 kg
Degrees of freedom
21
Battery
~480 min
Payload
10 kg
Top speed
2.4 m/s
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Size to scale
Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.
KR1: 162 cm / 5 ft 4 in, 100 kg
Footprint: 60 cm wide x 70 cm deep
About the KR1background, hardware and buying reality
Unveiled in July 2025, it stands 162 cm, weighs about 100 kg, carries 21 degrees of freedom, and moves up to 2.4 m/s while processing perception and planning onboard via NVIDIA Jetson with no required cloud link. Its pitch is low cost and fast, demonstration-based task setup: operators teach it by showing rather than programming. It uses swappable two-finger grippers and vacuum tools (not dexterous hands), handles a 10 kg nominal payload (up to 25 kg dynamic / 40 kg static per the company), and runs roughly 8 hours on hot-swappable 48V packs for 24/7 cycles. Before the acquisition it was sold only as paid enterprise pilots at a $75,000 list price or about $4,000/month robot-as-a-service. In late June 2026 Kinisi agreed to be acquired by Bear Robotics (LG's majority-owned service-robot company), which now presents it as a Bear product with no public price and specifications 'to be confirmed at launch', so the KR1's future is as part of Bear's offering rather than a standalone product.
What it does on day onewith zero programming
Nothing for a walk-up buyer: there is no unboxing. In a pilot, Kinisi/Bear staff deploy it pre-configured, and it then autonomously runs the taught task (pick-and-place, tote handling, sortation, palletizing, replenishment) on flat warehouse floors, navigating via SLAM and processing everything onboard without a cloud connection.
Best for: Warehouse, fulfillment, retail-replenishment, and light-manufacturing operators who want to pilot autonomous pick-and-place, sortation, tote handling, or palletizing on flat floors without hiring a robotics team, and who are comfortable with a managed RaaS pilot rather than owning and programming a robot.
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