Kinetix AI
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About Kinetix AI
Kinetix AI is developing KAI, a full-size humanoid robot for household, industrial and service environments. Its programme combines spatial intelligence, whole-body control, dexterous manipulation and a multimodal foundation model spanning vision, language, touch, action and affective interaction.
The company is building a whole-body data-acquisition pipeline and embodied-AI infrastructure alongside the hardware. KAI is intended to perform manipulation and movement tasks such as sorting, transport and fastening in factories, assistance in homes, and interaction in hotels, restaurants and shops. The platform remains at an early demonstration stage, with commercial availability and sustained task performance still under development.
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Funding
- 2026-09-11 - Angel+ financing - Kinetix AI raises more than RMB500 million in Angel+ financing
The completed early-stage financing backs Kinetix AI’s integrated data, model and humanoid hardware programme. - source: t.cj.sina.com.cn
Investors
- Fangguang Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-11
- Vertex Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-11
- Wanshi Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-11
Research
- Kinetix AI and HKU MMLab publish SMASH humanoid table-tennis research
2026-04-01 - Research Publication - The system perceives the ball through onboard egocentric cameras rather than an external motion-capture setup. Its learned controller coordinates full-body strokes including smashes and low crouching returns. The paper reports consecutive physical-robot rallies and explicitly identifies Unitree G1 as the experimental platform.
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Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-11 - Funding - Kinetix AI raises more than RMB500 million in Angel+ financing
Vertex Ventures, Fangguang Capital and Wanshi Capital were among the investors adding capital. The company plans to accelerate data infrastructure, embodied-model development and robot hardware iteration before commercialization. Kinetix had completed three earlier financings and employed nearly 200 people; its first full-size KaiBot was introduced in April 2026.
Source - 2026-04-26 - Product Launch - Kinetix AI introduces KAI and its KaiBot humanoid hardware
KaiBot was specified at 173 centimetres and 70 kilograms, with 115 degrees of freedom; each 36-DOF hand included 22 actively controlled and 14 compliant degrees. A 1.7 kWh semi-solid battery was rated for about three hours of dual-arm operation, with a combined arm payload approaching 20 kilograms. The body’s approximately 18,000 tactile points were designed to detect contact above 0.1 newtons.
Source - 2026-04-01 - Research Publication - Kinetix AI and HKU MMLab publish SMASH humanoid table-tennis research
The system perceives the ball through onboard egocentric cameras rather than an external motion-capture setup. Its learned controller coordinates full-body strokes including smashes and low crouching returns. The paper reports consecutive physical-robot rallies and explicitly identifies Unitree G1 as the experimental platform.
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Relations
Relationships
- HKU MMLab
Research Collaborator - Kinetix AI and HKU MMLab co-authored SMASH research on egocentric-vision humanoid table tennis.
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Context tags
- Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer - Kinetix builds complete humanoid robot systems.
- Physical world model humanoid builder - Peer Group - Kinetix builds humanoid robots around physical world models and embodied AI.
- Physical world model interaction - Workflow - Kinetix enables physical world model interaction.
- Humanoid VLA interaction - Capability - Kinetix supports VLA-based humanoid interaction.
- Industrial humanoid service robot builder - Workflow - Kinetix develops humanoid robots for industrial and service settings.
- Humanoid service robot builder - Workflow - Kinetix builds humanoid robots for service interaction.
- Consumer humanoid markets - Customer Environment - Kinetix serves consumer and humanoid markets.