The Exploration Path Of The Rising Star Of Humanoid Robots

At the "2024 China Humanoid Robot Ecosystem Conference" on April 2, many representatives of humanoid robot industry companies gathered to share their views on cutting-edge topics in the humanoid robot industry, market trends and landing directions.

Among them, Hu Debo, CEO of Kepler Humanoid Robot, gave a keynote speech on the theme of "Beyond Boundaries: Kepler Humanoid Robot's Exploration Road".

Although Kepler is a rising star in humanoid robots, it has accumulated a lot of experience in product research and development. Today, I will share with you Kepler's understanding of the humanoid robot industry, future plans, and exploration and attempts in the field of humanoid robots.

As we all know, humanoid robots are a hot topic at the moment and have been developed for a hundred years. Today, everyone's curiosity about humanoid robots is based on the upsurge of humanoid robot landing applications brought about by Tesla. Therefore, the humanoid robot industry has also reached a critical point based on many previous explorations.

The pain point of robots is global, especially for European and American countries, whose industries have a particularly urgent need for robots. For example, the strike of Amazon workers at the beginning was very destructive to the industries of European and American countries.

Looking at the situation in China, there is currently a great demand for humanoid robots in special industries, so the implementation of humanoid robots in special industries will be relatively fast. In the future, fewer and fewer young Chinese workers will enter the blue-collar field. The lack of labor will lead to a surge in market demand for humanoid robots, which will provide more implementation scenarios for humanoid robots.

According to various third-party forecasts, the entire industry is now approaching a growth inflection point. Once the deployment inflection point is passed, the growth rate of humanoid robots will be very high. This can be verified by Musk's proposal to deploy more than 10 billion humanoid robots. Although everyone has different views on this number, there is a consensus on the huge deployment volume after the inflection point.

The implementation of humanoid robots in history has not been successful. The main reasons are as follows:

First, the cost is high. For example, Atlas, why is Atlas not used when it is so good? Because they never thought about using it on the ground, it is purely a passion. But now with the emergence of Tesla's humanoid robots, they have new ideas and new plans for the implementation of humanoid robots. In the past, humanoid robots were too low in intelligence, which posed many challenges to the convenience of deployment. However, the current progress in artificial intelligence has given us hope for AGI, and the IQ of robots may also be greatly improved.

The second is the application scenario. The application scenarios of humanoid robots were very limited in the past, mostly in the fields of scientific research and education. In the future, they will be widely used in various industries. The explosive breakthrough of AI and the huge development of the general model of robot intelligence are expected to bring about the GPT3.0 moment of embodied intelligence.

Cost has always been a pain point for humanoid robots, but now with the goal of $20,000 proposed by Musk, cost is no longer a constraint on the development of humanoid robots. Kepler should be the world leader in cost control, and we will soon be able to reach a sales level of tens of thousands of dollars. Once the cost constraint is broken, the public will shift its focus to the performance and operational capabilities of humanoid robots, which will promote the development of humanoid robots to a new level.

Kepler's global landing strategy

Crossing five boundaries, promoting mass landing applications: creating a blue-collar robot with strong execution ability and capable of doing both rough and fine work; leveraging the global progress of embodied intelligence to create a robot with high IQ and good at self-learning; providing software and hardware integrated solutions to create Kepler's global application ecological platform; extreme cost reduction, ultra-high ROI, and promoting early landing; globalization strategy, simultaneous expansion and landing in the European and American markets and the Chinese market.

Kepler Pioneer series universal humanoid robots

Positioning: comparable to Tesla Optimus Prime, creating the top high-IQ blue-collar robot in the humanoid industry.

Focus on four scenarios: intelligent manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, special industries, and traditional scientific research and education.

The Kepler robot is 1.75 meters tall and weighs 85 kilograms. It has a super load (two arms can carry 30 kilograms, and one hand can carry 15 kilograms. Version 5.0 will be released in the third quarter of this year, so stay tuned.

In terms of the body hardware architecture, it is benchmarked against Tesla Optimus Prime, with TrueBionic™️ body architecture, self-developed KeplerForce planetary power™️ roller screw actuator, self-developed KeplerGear precision rotation power™️ rotary actuator, and self-developed NimbleMaster™️ 12-degree-of-freedom multi-touch dexterous hand.

In terms of software platform, it adopts a fully open strategy, provides open APIs at all levels, and provides developers or application developers with a very flexible platform.

In the entire humanoid robot value chain, Kepler is positioned as a provider of software and hardware platforms. The company is committed to building a high-IQ blue-collar robot, cooperating with global technology, and implementing it with global customers. At the same time, it focuses on China's local market and cooperates with China's local technology to achieve competition with the European and American markets.