On January 30, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, held a centralized signing ceremony for strategic emerging industry projects. The People’s Government of Bincheng District signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. (Kepler) for the Kepler (Binzhou) Robot Manufacturing Project.
Li Yiming, Member of the Standing Committee of the Bincheng District Party Committee, Minister of the Organization Department and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Liu Tianying, Global Strategy Director of Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd., signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.Hu Bo, Member of the Standing Committee of the Binzhou Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, Yao Zhenxiang, Director of the Binzhou Development and Reform Commission, Shan Jiliang, Secretary of the Bincheng District Party Committee, Wang Hui, Director of the Binzhou Municipal Government Investment Promotion Center, and other officials attended and witnessed the ceremony.
Boosting High-Quality Development of the Regional Robot Industry
At present, Binzhou is accelerating the layout of emerging industries. This centralized signing is not only a practical move to link high-quality resources and strengthen industrial collaboration, but also a key step to upgrade industries and foster new-quality productive forces.
To promote the high-quality development of the robot industry, multiple departments of Shandong Province jointly issued the High-Quality Development Action Plan for the Robot Industry in Shandong Province (2025–2027). The plan aims to achieve a robot manufacturing industry scale of over 50 billion yuan by 2027, and build innovation platforms covering industrial, service, special-purpose, and humanoid robots.
The Kepler (Binzhou) Robot Manufacturing Project will be implemented in two phases:
Phase 1: Based on the real-scenario application of 100 Kepler special robots, a provincial-level embodied intelligent data collection and training center will be built, providing a solid data foundation for the iteration of embodied intelligent algorithms and engineering applications.
Phase 2: Focus on building a special robot headquarters and an industry-university-research integration base, targeting wind power operation and maintenance, industrial inspection, and other segmented fields to accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements into actual productivity.
Accelerating Embodied Intelligence from the Lab to Real Industrial Scenarios
Relying on years of accumulated technical strength and extensive industrial scenario verification, Kepler is committed to turning humanoid robots into genuine industrial productivity units.
K2 Bumblebee: World’s First Commercially Available Hybrid Humanoid Robot
Kepler’s self-developed K2 Bumblebee is the world’s first commercially available humanoid robot with a hybrid architecture. Its technical framework provides the fundamental guarantee for industrial-grade embodied intelligence.Centered on the self-developed hierarchical model VLA+, Kepler has built a multi-modal interactive agent integrating visual perception, language understanding, and action decision-making, realizing unified collaboration from semantic understanding to physical execution.Based on this system, K2 Bumblebee has successfully formed a positive closed loop:Scenario-driven → Data accumulation → Rapid iteration → Mass deliveryIt has achieved continuous verification and large-scale application in high-difficulty scenarios such as high-altitude welding, automobile manufacturing, and industrial logistics.
Industrial-Grade Hardware for Heavy-Duty Applications
Kepler’s special robots are systematically designed for high-intensity industrial and special scenarios, with industrial-grade hardware laying a solid foundation for commercial deployment.The structure of K2 Bumblebee adopts a hybrid architecture tailored for industrial scenarios. Kepler has overcome technical challenges by developing a scheme combining roller screw actuators and rotary actuators, balancing payload, stability, and energy consumption.
K2 Bumblebee supports 1-hour charging for 8 hours of continuous operation, meeting long-cycle operation requirements in complex scenarios.With self-developed planetary roller screw actuators, the humanoid robot achieves significant improvements in key indicators such as high payload, low backlash, long service life, and control precision, ensuring stable task execution in harsh environments.In addition, the integrated software-hardware design deeply couples the actuation system with the VLA+ intelligent architecture, enabling the robot’s algorithm capabilities to be transformed into controllable and reliable physical actions.
Developer Platform for Industry-Wide Collaboration
To lower the threshold for robot application development and accelerate the implementation of industry solutions, Kepler has built a developer platform while insisting on independent research and development. It systematically opens its core embodied intelligence capabilities and engineering interfaces to universities, research institutions, industrial partners, and developers.Kepler will continue to expand platform resources, with plans to launch more industry-specific API kits, one-click development and deployment toolchains, and open a partner solution exhibition center.
Driven by broad application prospects, strong policy support, and technological breakthroughs, the humanoid robot industry is accelerating toward large-scale commercialization.With years of layout in industrial scenarios and exploration of commercialization paths, Kepler has already cooperated with the world’s top five automakers and leading logistics companies.In the future, Kepler will deepen cooperation with all sectors of the industrial chain to create high-intelligence, high-reliability, high-safety, and cost-effective industrial productivity units for a wider range of applications, using technology to reshape productivity.
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