Household and care focus
KIT presents ARMAR-7 for households and care facilities, combining speech and gesture understanding with autonomous task execution. [2]
Price & availability
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has not published a price
Prototype
Current dataset status: Prototype.
Product overview
About KIT ARMAR-7
KIT ARMAR-7 is the newest model in the ARMAR family from the H²T group at KIT's Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics. KIT's family page describes it as a dual-arm assistance robot for human environments such as homes. It has two 8-DoF torque-controlled arms, underactuated hands with four active DoF each, a 3-DoF head and a holonomic mobile platform with three omni-wheels. KIT calls it the successor of its ARMAR-III kitchen robot.
KIT presents ARMAR-7 for households and care facilities. It combines spoken-language interaction with autonomous task execution and learns new tasks from human demonstration through the ArmarX software architecture. The earliest explicit public item found in KIT's H²T news archive shows ARMAR-7 assisting with kitchen tasks at Campusday in June 2024. A June 2024 item about the JuBot project described the robot as intended to support older people in daily activities.
At Hannover Messe in April 2026, KIT demonstrated ARMAR-7 unloading a dishwasher, sorting laundry and organizing kitchen items. KIT has not published height, weight, payload, battery or a price for ARMAR-7, and it lists no sales channel. It remains a research prototype.
Capabilities
Key features
Learns from human demonstration
KIT says the robot runs its newest ArmarX software architecture and can learn new tasks by watching people, adapting to a user's routines. [2]
Arms, hands and holonomic base
KIT lists torque-controlled 8-DoF arms, underactuated hands with four active DoF, a 3-DoF head and a three-omni-wheel platform. [1][3]
Successor to ARMAR-III
KIT describes ARMAR-7 as the successor of its kitchen robot ARMAR-III, which KIT dates to 2006. [1]
Hardware profile
Specifications
Official — stated by the manufacturer or organizerReported — stated by a credible third partyEstimated — derived or approximate
Body
Hands & Manipulation
- DoF per hand
- 4Official — stated by the manufacturer or organizer[1][3]Four motors actuate eleven mechanical DoF in each underactuated hand
- Hand / end effector
- Underactuated five-finger hands with 11 mechanical DoF driven by four motors eachOfficial — stated by the manufacturer or organizer[3]
Compute & Sensing
Show unknown fields (11)
Body
- Height
- Not published
- Weight
- Not published
Mobility
- Maximum speed
- Not published
- Peak joint torque
- Not published
- Actuation
- Not published
Power
- Battery
- Not published
- Runtime
- Not published
- Charge time
- Not published
- Swappable battery
- Not published
Hands & Manipulation
- Payload
- Not published
Compute & Sensing
- Onboard compute
- Not published
Quick answers
KIT ARMAR-7 FAQ
Can you buy KIT ARMAR-7?
No general order page is verified. KIT ARMAR-7 is currently classified as prototype. [1]
How many degrees of freedom does KIT ARMAR-7 have?
KIT ARMAR-7 has 29 listed degrees of freedom; Calculated from KIT's per-part figures: 2 × 8-DoF arms, 3-DoF head, 2-DoF torso and 2 × 4 active hand DoF; the omni-wheel base is excluded. KIT publishes no total. [1][3]
Who makes KIT ARMAR-7?
KIT ARMAR-7 is made by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), based in Germany. [1]
What is the predecessor or successor of KIT ARMAR-7?
KIT ARMAR-III is its predecessor. [1]
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Benchmarks & competitions
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Evidence
Sources
- [1]ARMAR Family (KIT H²T) ↗Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H²T) · official · accessed Oct 10, 2026
- [2]Welcome to H²T (KIT H²T homepage, news items including ARMAR-7 entries) ↗Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H²T) · official · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [3]Robot Hands and Hand Prostheses (KIT H²T) ↗Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H²T) · official · accessed Oct 8, 2026