01 — About Kineta
We teach machines the feeling of care.
Kineta is a robotics lab in Rotterdam building hands, eyes and judgement for robots that work beside people — not behind cages.
02 — Our story
Started with a dropped egg.
In 2019 our founders watched a state-of-the-art arm crush an egg it had been trained on for weeks. The problem wasn’t vision — it was touch. Kineta began as a tactile sensor and grew into a full embodied-intelligence stack.
Today 60 engineers, roboticists and designers ship hardware and software as one product, deployed in factories, labs and warehouses across Europe and North America.
03 — Principles
What we hold ourselves to.
01
Touch before speed
A robot that can feel is a robot that can slow down at the right moment.
02
Safe by default
Every behaviour ships with a fail-safe the floor team can understand.
03
One mind, many bodies
Skills are learned once and shared across every form factor.
04
Measured, not promised
We publish the numbers from live sites — including the bad weeks.
04 — Milestones
Six years, one loop.
2019
First tactile skin prototype, 64 taxels.
2021
Kineta Hand ships to three pilot labs.
2023
Kineta OS unifies arms and quadrupeds.
2026
40+ live sites, 18K robot-hours a month.
Build the next chapter with us.
We hire people who like hard problems with physical consequences.