A pair of humanoid robots from the Shenzhen startup KinetixAI awkwardly introduce themselves to the world. The startup was launched by former core R&D team members from XPeng, who contributed to the EV maker's flagship Iron humanoid robot. Its roster also includes academic supervisors from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Jia Tong University. Kinetix is making some pretty big claims about its flagship humanoid KAI. The full-sized humanoid has a reported 115 degrees of freedom (DoF) across its body for a wide range of motion. Its body is covered with tactile skin that's described as having more than 18,000 sensing points. KAI's hands are especially advanced, boasting 36 DoF. This is more than any robotic hand entering the market and even exceeds the moving joints of human hands, which typically have 27 DoF. It's also one of the first humanoid robots powered by a semi-solid-state battery (alongside Iron and EngineAI's T800). According to Kinetix, KAI runs on its self-developed world model. The startup is pitching the humanoid as a general-purpose helper to compete with humanoids from Tesla, Figure AI, and 1X Technologies. They're targeting pricing below $40,000 for basic models.