Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2

Name: Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2
Brand: Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd.
Price: 248000 CNY

Category: full-size · Manufacturer: Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. (CN) · Announced: 2024-10-21¹²

Not reviewed

The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.

· Delivery status: Recorded demonstrated

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175 cmhuman

175 cm³Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2

Height to scale. Width is schematic, derived from weight; not a measured body width.

Specs

Specs table
Field	Value	Status	Quote	Accessed	Archive
Height (cm)	175³	claimed	“175 cm (5 ft 9 in)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Weight (kg)	75⁴	claimed	“75 kg (165 lbs)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Degrees of freedom	52⁵	claimed	“52 total; hands feature up to 11 DOF per hand (active and passive)” Source unavailable The cited source could not be accessed during review. Reason The per-host request budget was reached during the review, so the source content and claim could not be re-established. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-20	—
Battery runtime (min)	480²	demonstrated	“1-hour charge, 8-hour operation” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Payload (kg)	30¹	claimed	“30 kg (66 lbs)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Hand degrees of freedom	11⁶	claimed	“up to 11 degrees of freedom (active and passive) per hand” Source unavailable The cited source could not be accessed during review. Reason The per-host request budget was reached during the review, so the source content and claim could not be re-established. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-20	—
Tactile skin	true⁷	claimed	“Each fingertip is equipped with a flexible sensor that includes up to 96 contact points” Source unavailable The cited source could not be accessed during review. Reason The per-host request budget was reached during the review, so the source content and claim could not be re-established. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-20	—
Charge time (min)	60⁸	claimed	“1-hour charge, 8-hour operation” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21	—
Locomotion	bipedal⁹	claimed	“improved gait planning and control algorithms have enhanced K2's stability against external disturbances and its walking speed” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21	—

Power, software and buying

Power, software and buying table
Field	Status	Value	Quote	Accessed
Actuator torque (Nm)	—		—	—
Battery (Wh)	—		—	—
Battery swappable	—		—	—
Charge time (min)		60⁸	“1-hour charge, 8-hour operation” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21
Locomotion		bipedal⁹	“improved gait planning and control algorithms have enhanced K2's stability against external disturbances and its walking speed” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21
SDK	—		—	—
Warranty	—		—	—
Order type		preorder¹³	“World's first commercially available planetary roller screw-driven humanoid robot” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21

Safety and control

Not yet reviewed means Humanoidrecord has not reviewed or found documentation for this field. It does not show that a feature is absent, certify protection, or establish how the robot behaves in every setting.

Safety documentation status
Field	Review status	Evidence
Emergency stop	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed
Motion limits	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed
Operator logging	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed

Reported control modes

These modes apply only to the sourced capabilities listed here, not to the robot as a whole.

Not yet reviewed.

See the incident register for separately sourced public reports. This link does not connect this robot or model to an incident.

Simulation

No simulation artifact confirmed in targeted search

This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean simulation support is unavailable.

Search checked: 2026-09-27
Search result: Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable.

Searched source 1

Actuator architecture

No actuator architecture confirmed in targeted search

This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean a particular architecture is absent.

Search checked: 2026-09-27
Search result: Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists.

Searched source 1

What it has been seen doing

Capabilities table
Capability	Recorded status	Reported autonomy	Source review
Continuous operation (1h+)	recorded demonstrated	reported unknown	“1-hour charge, 8-hour operation”¹¹ Source unavailable The cited source could not be accessed during review. Reason The per-host request budget was reached during the review, so the source content and claim could not be re-established. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source

Results under fixed rules

Results table
Event	Date	Discipline	Result	Rank	Autonomy	Source
No competition results under a fixed ruleset recorded yet.

Price history

Price history table
Date	Amount	Variant	Status
2025-08-01	CNY 248,000¹⁰	Bumblebee base pre-sale configuration	claimed Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.

Recorded delivery timeline

claimed → demonstrated
demonstrated
first delivery recorded

Forerunner K2 (Gen 5.0) debuted at Gitex Global 2024 in Dubai.¹²
Not reviewed
The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.
K2 'Bumblebee' completed an 8-hour continuous livestream at WAIC 2025.²
Not reviewed
The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.
Pre-sales opened for the K2 'Bumblebee', marketed as the world's first commercially available planetary-roller-screw-driven humanoid robot.¹⁴
Not reviewed
The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.

Notes

Height/weight conflict: Kepler's own PR Newswire releases (Oct 2024 and Aug 2025) do not give a consistent single figure across all Kepler materials; several secondary aggregator sites (e.g. humanoid.guide-derived listings) report 178 cm / 85 kg instead of the 175 cm / 75 kg used here. The 175 cm / 75 kg figure is used because it traces to Kepler's own named press release with a direct quote; the 178 cm / 85 kg figure could not be traced to a specific dated primary source and is not used.
An earlier press round (April 2025, SAIC-GM Shanghai plant deployment) and independent coverage cited a $30,000 USD base price; this is not included as a price_history entry because it could not be traced to a specific dated Kepler statement during this build, and it conflicts with the ¥248,000 pre-sale price from the Aug 2025 Kepler release.
The 8-hour livestream is Kepler's own event, described in a Kepler press release rather than fully independent press coverage; it is recorded as 'demonstrated' rather than 'shipped' or bare 'claimed' because it is a real, timestamped, continuous public demonstration.
No named customer with invoice/serial-number/unboxing evidence was found, so delivery.status remains 'demonstrated', not 'shipped'.
Shipped-bar research (2026-09-20): Web search for delivery evidence returned only NASA's unrelated Kepler/K2 space telescope mission and generic spec-sheet pages; no named-customer delivery evidence for the Kepler Robotics K2 humanoid was found in this pass. Remains at prior status.

Record history

Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: locomotion added: bipedal (claimed) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: locomotion removed: source did not support value (was bipedal) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: charge_time_min added: 60 (claimed) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: locomotion added: bipedal (claimed) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: hand_dof added: 11 (claimed) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: tactile_skin added: yes (claimed) ^source
Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. Forerunner K2: capability "continuous-operation-1h" added (demonstrated, unknown) ^source

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