Buying guide
AEON vs K2 Bumblebee in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Hexagon | Kepler Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | Not announced | $34,000 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 1BMW Group | 1SAIC General Motors |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 5 | 5 |
Editorial summaries
AEON
Hexagon's AEON is an industrial humanoid robot built for factory work such as assembly lines and high-voltage EV-battery manufacturing, developed with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Swiss actuator maker maxon. It carries 22 sensors and self-swapping batteries (about 23 seconds) for around-the-clock operation, with a walking speed near 2.5 meters per second. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment, at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: the honest counterpoint to aggregator 'humanoids are working in factories at scale' framing, this is a verified pilot, not commercial-at-scale. As industrial equipment sold to manufacturers, it has no consumer price.
K2 Bumblebee
Kepler Robotics describes the K2 (Bumblebee) as commercially available and in mass production, priced at about $34,000 (RMB 248,000) per unit per the company's official announcement. Most volume is sold through enterprise framework agreements rather than individual retail. The price is verified from Kepler's own release.
Common questions
- What is the difference between AEON and K2 Bumblebee?
- AEON and K2 Bumblebee are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, AEON or K2 Bumblebee?
- AEON and K2 Bumblebee each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
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