Kinisi
About
About Kinisi
Kinisi is Bear Robotics' wheeled mobile manipulator for picking, placing, sorting and moving materials. Its target workflows include taking boxes, bins and irregular objects from shelves, conveyors or the floor and moving them between work areas. Bear positions the robot for warehouses, manufacturing facilities and hotels, with a mobile upper-body design for handling in existing layouts.
Tasks are taught through demonstrations, and Bear Universe coordinates the platform alongside Bear's delivery and cleaning robots. Site work includes workflow assessment, installation, customisation and continuing support. Bear reports live glass-sorting applications in which the robot separates material by shape, size and type. Customer introductions also include pilots around specific workflows. Task setup and equipment are selected around the application.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Issuer-reported glass-sorting operation; site unspecified, Intended indoor warehouse and factory work, Intended manufacturing machine stations
- Pick and place
Claimed - Pick boxes, bins, totes and irregular objects from shelves, conveyors or the floor. - environment: Intended indoor warehouse and factory work
Source - Object sorting and classification
Demonstrated - Sort glass by shape, size and material. - environment: Issuer-reported glass-sorting operation; site unspecified
Source - Machine tending
Claimed - Load or unload machines in configured manufacturing workflows. - environment: Intended manufacturing machine stations
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Supply
Supply / Components
- Kinisi 01
Nvidia Jetson For Bear Robotics Kinisi - Compute & Control - NVIDIA - The earlier Kinisi 01 specification listed NVIDIA Jetson as its main processor - source: kinisi.com
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Resources
Media library
- Kinisi warehouse view
image · Bear Robotics
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Timeline
- Kinisi demonstrates learned towel folding with KR1
2025-12-22 - Demonstration - An operator guided the compliant robot while it logged RGB images, arm movements and gripper actions. Training demonstrations varied the towel’s starting position so the policy learned beyond a single fixed arrangement. The learned policy mapped camera input to subsequent movements without explicit labels for towel corners or edges.
Source - Kinisi deploys KR1 for glass-bottle sorting in the UK
2025-11-25 - Deployment - Vision and machine learning classify randomly oriented bottles by shape, size and material before choosing a grasp. The robot works at the sortation stage, away from crushing machinery; Kinisi added joint bands to reduce dust ingress. Kinisi said throughput remained below a human operator’s pace and planned to increase speed through further field operation.
Source - Kinisi introduces KR1 for warehouse manipulation
2025-07-14 - Product Launch - The demonstration showed shelf picking into totes, obstacle avoidance and transport of loaded totes to a designated area. Kinisi described teaching tasks through operator demonstrations rather than coding each movement. Onboard processing was designed to keep the system operating in low-connectivity environments.
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Context
Market context
Kinisi 01 is Kinisi's wheeled dual-arm mobile manipulator for repetitive physical tasks in structured industrial environments.
- Target environment: Factories, warehouses, labs and controlled indoor workspaces where wheeled mobility is practical.
- Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, material handling, dual-arm manipulation, repetitive task execution and facility support work.
- Customer context: Industrial operators, logistics teams, research labs and partners evaluating mobile manipulation without bipedal locomotion.
- Deployment model: Prototype mobile manipulator platform positioned around practical indoor task automation.
- Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage product with public product identity and limited commercial deployment evidence.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, fleet integration, manipulation accuracy, safety, payloads and site preparation.
- Market position: Wheeled mobile-manipulation lane that avoids humanoid walking while retaining two-arm task capability.
- Adjacent products: Diligent Moxi, Stretch RE2, Quanta X2, Toyota HSR