Anyverse's K15 robot starts work at JD's 7Fresh coffee shops in Beijing
Anyverse Dynamics says its wheeled, two-armed K15 is running orders at two 7Fresh Coffee shops, with plans to expand to more than 1,000 stores.
Beijing startup Anyverse Dynamics announced a strategic agreement with JD.com on October 31. It says the first project is already live: in October its K15 robot went to work at two of JD's 7Fresh Coffee shops in Beijing, the Xichenli and Changying Tianjie stores.
According to the company, the K15 works alongside each store's automated production line and runs the whole job, from the moment an order comes in to the finished task, without staff. The same month, the first K15s sold to outside customers through JD's platform were delivered.
The K15 is Anyverse's second-generation robot: a wheeled, two-armed semi-humanoid running a self-developed 1,200 TOPS computer, now in volume production. The company says its wrist turns within a 30 mm radius, so it can keep working in spaces no wider than 800 mm.
Next, the partners plan to copy the setup across more than 1,000 7Fresh stores. They're targeting RMB 1 billion (about $140 million) in product cooperation, and they also plan to work together at JD MALL and JD RoboBase and to expand overseas. Anyverse was founded in March 2025 by Zhang Yufeng, a former Horizon Robotics vice president. JD is also an investor: a JD-affiliated fund joined Anyverse's angel round in June, Robrief reports, citing China Fund News.
Neither company has said exactly which tasks the robot handles or how many robots will be deployed.
Why it matters
Many coffee robots are self-contained kiosks. A robot that fits behind a narrow, existing counter is much easier to roll out across a chain. JD is also the sales channel here, so the number of stores that actually get a K15 will be the real test of demand.
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