Humanoid Robots Working Through Spring Festival: What Are They Up To?

During the Spring Festival holiday, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala arrived as scheduled. In programs at the Beijing main venue, multiple humanoid robots dressed in distinctive costumes danced gracefully to the music, executing flips, jumps, and formation changes seamlessly, presenting New Year blessings to global audiences with their agile dance moves.

While robots on stage enjoyed the spotlight, becoming "tech stars" capturing the nation's attention, one humanoid robot chose a different way to spend the Spring Festival—Kepler's K2 "Bumblebee" held its post on the frontlines, continuously working in production workshops, while also intuitively demonstrating its capabilities through "fitness training," interpreting the industrial value of humanoid robots through "getting things done," becoming a unique sight in the tech sector during the Spring Festival period.

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01. The "Dual Aspects" of Humanoid Robots: Stage Spotlight vs. Industrial Worksite

The robot performances on the Spring Festival Gala stage represent a concentrated showcase of China's humanoid robot technological achievements, demonstrating China's leading capabilities in robot motion control and collaborative interaction. These robots, with their exceptional flexibility and visual appeal, allow audiences to experience the charm of technology empowering traditional culture, while also bringing this cutting-edge field of humanoid robots into public view.

Unlike the "cultural performers" on stage, Kepler has chosen a more pragmatic, more industrially valuable deployment path. As a general-purpose humanoid robot focused on industrial-grade scenarios, while other robots performed and danced at the Spring Festival Gala, earning applause and attention, Kepler's K2 "Bumblebee" chose to work diligently away from the hustle, transforming technical prowess into concrete industrial productivity.

It can both integrate into the New Year atmosphere, helping people hang spring couplets and lanterns, and transform into a "safety guardian," working round-the-clock at the Pure Rice Technology building, responsible for floor patrols and security.

Multiple Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" robots autonomously patrol each floor along designated routes, monitoring personnel access and equipment operating status, achieving 24-hour shift coverage. Leveraging binocular depth vision and the VLA+ model to enable intelligent path planning, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and anomaly recognition, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" can also automatically record inspection data and generate reports, providing uninterrupted 24-hour shift patrol with ≥98% patrol success rate, fortifying safety during the reunion season.

Additionally, dozens of Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" units at Pure Rice Technology's factory also "worked through the Spring Festival," supporting Chinese manufacturing through diligent work. In warehousing and production areas, they methodically complete cargo handling, executing hundreds of material transfer tasks daily, flexibly adapting to materials across 10+ SKU specifications, while simultaneously handling facility inspections and anomaly monitoring. Even when facing complexly stacked materials, they can rely on their "1-hour charge, 8-hour operation" robust endurance to safeguard industrial production during the Spring Festival period.

This distinctive "Spring Festival commitment" precisely captures the core value of industrial-grade humanoid robots.

On another front, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee's" "Spring Festival fitness" video visualizes industrial-grade technical specifications in a public-friendly manner. Single-arm 15kg, dual-arm 30kg dumbbell curls, 30kg cable curls and stable standing rows—every movement is a direct reflection of its industrial capabilities: the 30kg dual-arm payload corresponds to the core demands of industrial heavy-load handling, continuous fluid movements reflect the high stability of self-developed actuators, and precise posture control demonstrates the manipulation prowess of embodied intelligence. Kepler used "public fitness language" to clearly explain the core technical threshold between industrial-grade humanoid robots and performance-oriented robots.

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02. Hardcore Technology Support: Capability Core Directly Addressing Industrial Essentials

The reason Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" can achieve stable continuous operation across multiple scenarios during the Spring Festival lies in its precise alignment with industrial scenario essentials from the design stage, building a proprietary technical system around the three core elements of payload, endurance, and stability, giving it the genuine hard capabilities to adapt to industrial settings.

Kepler K2 "Bumblebee's" 30kg dual-arm total payload capacity enables it to directly adapt to heavy-load scenarios such as industrial workpiece handling, welding tool operation, and logistics container transfer, rather than being limited to lightweight demonstration tasks. Its "1-hour charge, 8-hour operation" effective working duration precisely matches manufacturing's single-shift rhythm, breaking free from the inflated endurance claims of laboratory-scenario humanoid robots, meeting the actual demands of round-the-clock industrial operations.

The core supporting this hardcore performance is precisely Kepler's self-developed planetary roller screw actuator—this core component combining high efficiency, long lifespan, and low energy consumption has solidified the foundational base for Kepler K2 "Bumblebee's" heavy-load operation and long-duration continuous work.

Compared to the industry-mainstream harmonic reducer solution, Kepler's self-developed planetary roller screw achieves 3-6x improvement in load capacity, supporting greater payloads; significantly enhanced transmission precision, improving motion stability; and reduced motor energy consumption, extending endurance—successfully overcoming the shortcomings of traditional rotary actuators: weak load capacity, high energy consumption, and short lifespan.

At the embodied intelligence "brain" level, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" has constructed a three-layer architecture of "embodied perception - embodied decision-making - embodied execution," analogous to the human "cerebrum decision-making, cerebellum execution" collaborative working mode, enabling the robot to autonomously judge and precisely execute tasks in complex industrial environments.

The robot continuously trains through "simulation data + massive real-robot data," completing semantic task execution through the hierarchical VLA+ model, while equipped with a self-developed precision perception small model customized and trained from large models.

This proprietary small model, optimized for specific industrial tasks with more streamlined parametric information, can efficiently adapt to the on-board multi-camera, multi-sensor setup, dramatically improving task success rates and stability. Currently, Kepler has established partnerships with multiple excellent domestic reasoning and logic-type large models, laying a solid foundation for the decision-making layer, truly achieving seamless connection from semantic understanding to physical execution, enabling robots to not only "understand commands" but also "do the work well."

Additionally, Kepler has fully opened its robot developer platform, further constructing an ecological barrier for industrial-grade embodied intelligence. As an "industrial-grade embodied intelligence operating system-level ecosystem entry point," the platform opens full-stack secondary development capabilities to industry system integrators, software developers, university research teams, and others. Through a tiered API architecture, complete SDK, and simulation resources, it significantly lowers the application development threshold for industrial humanoid robots, driving the transition from individual product deployment to large-scale replication of the industrial ecosystem—this is also Kepler's core ecosystem strategic capability distinguishing it from other companies.

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03. Large-Scale Deployment Validation: Completing the Commercial Loop from Laboratory to Factory

The impressive Spring Festival performance was no accident, but rather a capability demonstration resulting from long-term refinement and validation of Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" across multiple real industrial scenarios. Currently, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" has achieved large-scale deployment in various core industrial scenarios including automotive manufacturing, parts production, logistics warehousing, and high-altitude welding, with task success rates consistently around 99%. This not only systematically validates the critical leap of industrial-grade humanoid robots from "usable" to "scalable deployment," but also successfully constructs a complete commercial loop from technology R&D to scenario deployment.

At the SAIC-GM logistics factory, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" completed on-site deployment in just 2 days, successfully executing flow rack handling operations with an overall task success rate of 99%. At Zhaofeng Corporation's parts production workshop, it stably completes fully automated workpiece grasping and loading/unloading operations, effectively alleviating the efficiency bottleneck of traditional production lines where "people wait for equipment," directly improving overall production line operational efficiency. In a leading logistics company's automated warehouse scenario, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" can continuously handle 7kg+ containers within a 0-2 meter height range, with a single unit's longest continuous operation cycle reaching 450 days and a task success rate of 99.4%, becoming stable productivity in the logistics warehousing segment.

More noteworthy, Kepler has extended K2 "Bumblebee's" capabilities to high-risk, high-difficulty operation scenarios, completing the world's first "human-robot collaboration" high-altitude welding operation at Luxshare Technology. Leveraging Kepler's self-developed immersive full-body teleoperation system and refined motion mapping technology, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" achieved stable welding and human-robot collaborative operations in high-altitude complex environments, not only providing a verifiable and replicable technical paradigm for robots replacing humans in high-risk industrial scenarios, but also further expanding the application boundaries of industrial-grade humanoid robots.

These concrete deployment cases fully prove that Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" is far from a conceptual product confined to laboratories, but is truly a benchmark for industrial-grade humanoid robots with commercial deployment capabilities.

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04. From Stage Shows to Industrial Action: Defining the Industrial Value of Humanoid Robots

From the dazzling performances on the Spring Festival Gala stage to Kepler K2 "Bumblebee's" industrial diligence, the development logic of the humanoid robot industry is quietly shifting—compared to entertainment-oriented, performance-based demonstrations, industrial-grade, practical scenario deployment is the key to the industry's long-term development. Robot performances have introduced humanoid robots to the public, while industrial-grade humanoid robots enable them to truly create value, becoming new productive forces driving intelligent manufacturing upgrades and high-quality development of the real economy.

As a representative enterprise in industrial embodied intelligence deployment, Kepler has always adhered to the "revitalizing industry through diligent work" development philosophy, not chasing fleeting traffic and stage spotlights, but deeply cultivating real needs in industrial scenarios, ensuring every technological breakthrough translates into concrete operational capabilities, and every product precisely solves industry pain points.

This development approach also highly aligns with national development guidance for the humanoid robot industry. Currently, China is vigorously driving humanoid robots from stages to factories, improving core technological levels in areas like large models and integrated joints, promoting industry-scale development through scenario-driven and ecosystem-collaborative approaches.

The Spring Festival Gala buzz will eventually fade, but diligent work never stops. When robots on stage completed spectacular performances, Kepler K2 "Bumblebee" completed yet another precise handling task and another stable patrol round in factories. From "stage stars" to "industrial workhorses," the industrial value of humanoid robots is being redefined through "diligent work," and Kepler is leading industrial-grade humanoid robots toward a broader industrial future with K2 "Bumblebee" as the benchmark.

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