First gasoline-powered car patented, enabling personal transportation.
First powered aircraft flight, making human air travel possible.
Altair 8800 launches, sparking the personal computer revolution.
Game Boy debuts, defining portable gaming for a generation.
iPhone launches, transforming mobile computing for everyone.
Oculus Rift DK1 released, making VR accessible to the public.
K-Scale Labs releases the first mass-produced personal robot.
4'7" / 1.4m
77 lbs / 34 kg
22 lbs / 10 kg
Up to 4 hours
20
1.2 m/s
RGB, Stereo Vision, Ultra-wide FOV
Far-field microphones, stereo speakers
1.25 meter reach
7-DoF arm, 6-DoF hands available
120 Nm, 0.02° joint precision
Up to 100 TOPS AI performance (multiple compute options available)
Self-balances out of the box with RL locomotion policies.
Conversation-ready with 4-mic array and responsive speech output.
Move K-Bot around and pick up objects with VR teleoperation.
We designed K-Bot to be torn down and rebuilt, over and over again.
Easily upgrade to next-generation sensors and compute, instead of throwing your robot in the trash.
Equip your robot with one of our supported end effectors, or design your own for custom applications.
“The open-source robotics startup that caught OpenAI's eye”
And help ensure that it is maximally beneficial to humanity
0 hours of data
Basic locomotion, balance control, voice commands, and app-based control with predefined command set.
500 hours of data
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) integration enabling natural language task execution via text commands.
10,000 hours of data
Beta autonomy: unified perception-speech-action model with on-device inference. Limited temporal horizon, approximately 1 intervention per minute.
1,000,000 hours of data
Alpha autonomy: general-purpose task execution with long-horizon planning. "Ask me anything" capability. Fewer than 1 intervention per 10 minutes.
10,000,000 hours of data
Full autonomy: independent operation with less than 1 human intervention per day.
K-Bot | Figure 0.3 | Tesla Optimus | Unitree G1 | Booster T1 | |
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Open-source hardware/software | Yes | — | — | — | — |
Developer SDK | Yes | — | — | Yes | Yes |
Easily repairable | Yes | — | — | — | — |
Country of origin | USA | USA | USA | China | China |
Market price | — | — | $23,000 via inquiries | $47,685 via inquiries | |
Available | November 2025 | — | — | — | — |
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