On February 11, 2026, a strategic emerging industry project cooperation signing ceremony was held in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China. The People's Government of Bincheng District signed the Kepler (Binzhou) Robot Manufacturing Project with Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd. from China. Li Yiming, Member of the Standing Committee of the Bincheng District Party Committee, Head of the Organization Department, and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and Liu Tianying, Global Strategy Director of Kepler, signed the contract on behalf of both parties. Officials including Hu Bo, Member of the Standing Committee of the Binzhou Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, witnessed the ceremony.
This project is a key initiative for Binzhou to accelerate the layout of emerging industries and cultivate new quality productive forces. According to the "Shandong Province Robot Industry High-Quality Development Action Plan (2025-2027)", Shandong aims to achieve a robot manufacturing industry scale exceeding 50 billion yuan by 2027 and build innovation platforms covering industrial, service, special-purpose, and humanoid robots. The Kepler (Binzhou) project will be advanced in two phases. The first phase will establish a provincial-level embodied AI data collection and training center, based on the application of one hundred special-purpose robots in real-world scenarios. The second phase will construct a special-purpose robot headquarters and an integrated industry-academia-research base, targeting fields such as wind power operation and maintenance and industrial inspection to accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements.
Kepler is committed to promoting the transition of embodied AI robots from laboratories to industrial scenarios. Its independently developed K2 Hornet humanoid robot adopts a hybrid architecture, with the hierarchical model VLA+ as its core, building a multimodal interaction system that integrates visual perception, language understanding, and action decision-making, achieving synergy from semantic understanding to physical execution. This robot has been validated and applied in scenarios such as high-altitude welding and automobile manufacturing, forming a closed loop of "scenario-driven—data accumulation—iteration—delivery."
In terms of hardware, Kepler's special-purpose robots are designed for high-intensity industrial scenarios, developing a combined solution of roller screw actuators and rotary actuators to balance load, stability, and energy consumption. The K2 Hornet supports 1 hour of charging for 8 hours of continuous operation, enhancing endurance. Based on the self-developed planetary roller screw actuator, it improves performance in high load, low backlash, and control precision, ensuring stable operation in complex environments. The integrated hardware-software co-design deeply couples the execution system with the intelligent architecture, translating algorithmic capabilities into reliable physical actions.
To lower the barrier for application development, Kepler has created a developer platform, opening its core embodied AI capabilities and engineering interfaces to universities, research institutions, and partners. The platform plans to launch industry-specific API suites, one-click development toolchains, and establish a solution showcase center. Driven by policy support and technological breakthroughs, the humanoid robot industry is accelerating its large-scale implementation. Kepler has already collaborated with the world's top five OEMs and leading logistics companies. In the future, it will deepen industrial chain collaboration to create highly intelligent, reliable, and safe industrial productivity units, using technology to enhance production efficiency.
