Kepler K3 Bumblebee

K3 Bumblebee (K3大黄蜂) is Kepler's industrial humanoid and the successor to the K2 Bumblebee. Kepler launched it at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai in July 2026, alongside the wheeled K3W. The company presents it as a comprehensive upgrade over the K2 that keeps the same endurance and payload claims and adds a waist degree of freedom.

Kepler says the K3 charges for one hour and works for eight, and that it can lift 30 kg with both arms. At the show it was demonstrated in a training zone that copies factory production lines, where K3-series robots performed flexible two-robot collaborative work. Kepler's order coverage from the same period lists automotive manufacturing, precision machining and smart logistics among six core scenarios, but that figure is company-wide and not specific to this model.

The sources reviewed give no height, weight, total degrees of freedom, hand design or price for the K3 Bumblebee. The only compute and sensor details are series-level statements for the Bumblebee line. They also do not state its leg configuration or whether it is in volume production. The status is recorded as prototype: units were demonstrated, but no customer deployments for the K3 are documented.