Your first personal robot.

Made for pioneers.

1886

Automobile

First gasoline-powered car patented, enabling personal transportation.

1903

Airplane

First powered aircraft flight, making human air travel possible.

1974

Personal Computer

Altair 8800 launches, sparking the personal computer revolution.

1989

Mobile Gaming

Game Boy debuts, defining portable gaming for a generation.

2007

Smart Phone

iPhone launches, transforming mobile computing for everyone.

2012

Virtual Reality Headset

Oculus Rift DK1 released, making VR accessible to the public.

2025

Personal Robot

K-Scale Labs releases the first mass-produced personal robot.

Specifications

  • Height

    4'7" / 1.4m

  • Weight

    77 lbs / 34 kg

  • Max payload

    22 lbs / 10 kg

  • Battery life

    Up to 4 hours

  • Degrees of freedom

    20

  • Walking speed

    1.2 m/s

  • Camera

    RGB, Stereo Vision, Ultra-wide FOV

  • Audio

    Far-field microphones, stereo speakers

  • Arm span

    1.25 meter reach

  • Manipulation

    7-DoF arm, 6-DoF hands available

  • Max torque / precision

    120 Nm, 0.02° joint precision

  • Compute

    Up to 100 TOPS AI performance (multiple compute options available)

Strides across rough terrain, recovers from shoves

Self-balances out of the box with RL locomotion policies.

"Hey K-Bot, can you get an apple from the fridge?"

Conversation-ready with 4-mic array and responsive speech output.

Connect and control K-Bot from anywhere in under 90 seconds

Move K-Bot around and pick up objects with VR teleoperation.

K-Bot teleoperation

Designed in California. Made in Texas.

Uncompromising standards.

Built for the garage

We designed K-Bot to be torn down and rebuilt, over and over again.

K-Bot teleoperation

Designed for the future.

Modular sensor and compute suite

Easily upgrade to next-generation sensors and compute, instead of throwing your robot in the trash.

K-Bot Head Unit
K-Bot Head Unit
K-Bot Head Unit

Adaptable end effector design

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”

Build Full Autonomy alongside us

And help ensure that it is maximally beneficial to humanity

November 2025

Level I

0 hours of data

Basic locomotion, balance control, voice commands, and app-based control with predefined command set.

December 2025

Level II

500 hours of data

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) integration enabling natural language task execution via text commands.

June 2026 (Expected)

Level III

10,000 hours of data

Beta autonomy: unified perception-speech-action model with on-device inference. Limited temporal horizon, approximately 1 intervention per minute.

June 2027 (Expected)

Level IV

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.

June 2028 (Expected)

Level V

10,000,000 hours of data

Full autonomy: independent operation with less than 1 human intervention per day.

The most auditable, affordable, and accessible humanoid robot on the market.

K-BotFigure 0.3Tesla OptimusUnitree G1Booster T1
Open-source hardware/softwareYes
Developer SDKYesYesYes
Easily repairableYes
Country of originUSAUSAUSAChinaChina
Market price$16,000 $9,000$23,000 via inquiries$47,685 via inquiries
AvailableNovember 2025
prime mover (n):
  1. A machine that converts various other forms of energy into energy of movement
  2. A person or establishment that is chiefly responsible for the creation or execution of a plan or project

The future is not written - it is created by people with conviction. We call those people prime movers.

Prime Mover Benefits

  • Physical and digitally signed token
  • Priority production queue and expedited shipping
  • Exclusive Discord channel with direct access to our engineering team
  • Early access to software updates and new features
  • 20% lifetime discount on all K-Scale products
  • VIP invitation to our private launch event with leading AI researchers
  • Guaranteed access to all future K-Scale AI Day events

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What's included in the box?
    Each order includes a K-Bot humanoid robot and a battery charger.
  • When will I receive my K-Bot?
    For the latest information about expected shipping windows, please visit our shipping update page.
  • Is K-Bot available in my country or region?
    See the most up-to-date list of countries and regions we currently ship to here. We plan to offer our products worldwide and are continually expanding shipping locations as we grow. Stay updated by following us on social media, joining our community forum, and checking our website for the latest information.
  • What can I do with K-Bot?
    K-Bot is the world's first personal robot. With every software update, K-Bot gets a little bit smarter.

K-Bot

The first step towards a fully autonomous future.