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K-Scale Labs Delivers First K-Bot Humanoid, Sells Out Second Batch
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Palo Alto CA – K-Scale Labs, the startup championing an open-source approach to humanoid robotics, has officially shipped its first unit. The company announced on September 24th via a post on X that the first K-Bot Founder’s Edition had been delivered to a user, marking a significant transition from development to deployment for the young firm.
The announcement of the inaugural delivery was met with a characteristically unconventional comment from founder and CEO Benjamin Bolte. In a quote-tweet parodying the style of Donald Trump, Bolte celebrated the milestone, calling it a "truly HISTORIC day!" and congratulating the recipient.
This first shipment represents a tangible step forward for K-Scale, which aims to accelerate robotics development by making its hardware designs and software, including its KOS operating system, openly available to a community of developers and researchers. The K-Bot, priced at approximately $8,999, is marketed as a development platform intended to give programmers a relatively low-cost entry point into humanoid robotics.
The milestone also suggests strong early interest in K-Scale's open-source model. According to their website, the company has already sold out its second batch of K-Bots and has paused accepting new orders for the time being.
While the delivery of a single robot is a modest step in an industry with ambitions of mass-market deployment, it is a critical proof point for the Y Combinator-backed startup. By getting its hardware into the hands of external developers, K-Scale is now positioned to see if its core thesis—that an open, collaborative ecosystem can outpace the closed, proprietary models favored by competitors—will begin to bear fruit. The focus will now shift to what the nascent K-Bot community builds and improves upon with the open-source platform.
First K-Bot delivery, to @Harryoc493
