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Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Japanese heavy industrial conglomerate producing industrial robots, motorcycles, aerospace, and energy systems.

Track Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Founded
1896
HQ
Kobe, Japan
Status
public (TSE; Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd)

Models

1

Overview

Japanese heavy industrial conglomerate producing industrial robots, motorcycles, aerospace, and energy systems. Kawasaki Robotics division is a major industrial robot arm manufacturer. Publicly traded (TSE: 7012).

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
1 incident on file

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Key facts

HQ

Kobe, Japan

Founded

1896

Stock

Tokyo Stock Exchange (7012)

Revenue

¥2.31 trillion FY2025 (+8.5% YoY)

Robotics division

Kawasaki Robotics — industrial robot arms, duAro cobots, robotic automation systems

Incidents

None found — audited

Data & sources

Press releases

2

Web sources

1

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Models (1)

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Current platform

RHP Kaleido

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, through its Kawasaki Robotics arm, develops the RHP Kaleido humanoid as an internal research and development program rather than a spinout; KHI is a roughly half-century-old industrial-robot-arm maker. RHP stands for Robust Humanoid Platform, and the series, which began development in 2015 with a first generation in 2017, deliberately prioritizes robustness and load-bearing over acrobatics. Kaleido is a full-size human-sized bipedal humanoid; the verified seventh-generation specification is 180 cm, 80 kg, and a roughly 4 km/h human-like gait shown at iREX 2022, and the ninth-generation Kaleido 9 unveiled at iREX 2025 adds reinforced waist and leg joints, LiDAR with SLAM self-localization, autonomous walking, head-mounted-display remote operation, an 18 kg payload, and a companion Kaleido Station wheeled transport platform. The registry records it at research maturity: all the evidence points to an internal KHI R&D platform demonstrated at trade exhibitions, with no customer, pilot, or operator deployment, and KHI itself frames near-term factory use as a target around 2030 and disaster response as a long-horizon goal. The exhibition demonstrations, such as removing a 30 kg shelf and navigating stairs in a simulated rescue, are stated capabilities in controlled settings rather than field operations, and a circulating 60 kg lift claim is unverified against the confirmed 30 kg demo and 18 kg payload spec. The rideable Bex robotic goat and the CORLEO concept are separate Kawasaki R&D efforts, not this entity.

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Relationships

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Current leadership (1)

Safety record

1 incident on record (1 critical). Most recent: Jan 1981.

critical
1

Most recent: Jan 1981

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Incidents affecting Kawasaki Heavy Industries (1)

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Recent coverage

Kawasaki Heavy Industries in third-party press

Fujitsu to explore physical AI development and implementation across industries with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries integrating NVIDIA technology

Jul 16, 2026

Japan's Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier

Jul 15, 2026

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