Seeds | Kepler Robotics Secures Tens of Millions in New Funding

Gaishi Automotive learned that Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. has recently completed a new round of strategic financing worth tens of millions of yuan. The investor in this round of financing is Jiangyin Xia Chuang No. 1 Artificial Intelligence Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership).

Xiachuang No. 1 was jointly initiated and established by Jiangyin Xiake Bay Equity Investment Fund and Jiangyin High-Tech Venture Capital Co., Ltd., backed by the strong capabilities and resource integration capacity of Jiangyin Industrial Development Group.

Through this collaboration with Xiachuang No. 1, Kepler has not only secured strong financial momentum for its industrialization strategy, but also, by deeply integrating with Jiangyin’s local industrial resources, is proactively accelerating the large-scale deployment and application of industrial-grade humanoid robots in the Yangtze River Delta region.

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Prior to this, Kepler Robotics officially signed an agreement in March 2026 to establish operations in Xiakewan Science City. Meanwhile, Kepler’s Jiangyin subsidiary has also fully commenced construction, with its R&D and marketing teams already taking the lead in moving into local offices in Jiangyin, marking the project’s smooth entry into the critical stage of early preparation and market engagement.

According to Song Hua, CEO of Kepler Robotics, the Jiangyin project is expected to initially launch applications in 10 to 20 industrial scenarios to accelerate the transition of humanoid robots from the laboratory to the production line.

Since its establishment, Kepler has remained focused on the industrial-grade general-purpose humanoid robot sector, adhering to a core strategy of full-stack in-house R&D. Currently, Kepler’s self-sufficiency rate for core components has reached 80%, covering key areas such as mechanical structure design, force-tactile perception, and intelligent control algorithms, thereby building solid technological barriers.

Based on deep in-house development of core components, Kepler has successfully created the K2 “Bumblebee” humanoid robot. This robot offers key advantages such as heavy-load operation, long-endurance performance, and low-cost deployment, and can be widely adapted to multiple niche scenarios including intelligent manufacturing, warehouse logistics, special operations, and high-altitude operations.

In April this year, Kepler announced a major upgrade to its strategic focus: driven by the dual engines of an “embodied intelligence brain” and “full-stack force-tactile data collection,” the company is deepening its efforts in vertical generalization across industrial sectors, with a focus on overcoming three core industry bottlenecks: the scarcity of physical interaction data, the absence of force-tactile perception, and the weak generalization capability of models. Leveraging its fully self-developed VTLA multimodal perception model and KeplerBrain brain-inspired system, the company is building a high-quality industrial physical interaction dataset at the scale of tens of millions, creating industrial intelligent agents that can “feel, understand, and act.”

As of now, Kepler has successfully established benchmark application cases in high-altitude energized welding, industrial automated production line inspection, and heavy material handling.