Kinetix AI 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… - source: t.cj.sina.com.cn
• 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… - source: ithome.com
• 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… - source: arxiv.org