Humanoids
K2 was first shown working at the SAIC-GM car plant in Shanghai.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets K2 Bumblebee's stage
What the source says
“The K2 “Bumblebee” robot debuted at the SAIC-GM automotive plant in Shanghai in April 2025”
What it means
K2 Bumblebee, from Kepler Exploration Robotics, is at stage 3 of 5 on our ladder: pilot. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on K2 Bumblebee
- Kepler raised a new strategic funding round worth tens of millions of yuan, led by a Jiangyin investment partnership.
- Kepler told Jiemian News that deliveries were under way. No customers were named.
- Kepler announced the start of mass production of K2.
- Kepler said it had signed framework agreements (early, non-final deals) for several thousand K2 robots.
- Kepler's CEO said K2 was in limited-series production, starting with factory uses, with a base price of $30,000.
- Kepler showed K2 to the public for the first time at the ICRA robotics conference in Atlanta, US.