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Kawasaki Heavy Industries

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

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Founded
1896
HQ
Kobe, Japan
Status
Public

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As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Kawasaki Heavy Industries: 1 model, 1 active incident. 17 sources back the record.

PublicTSE: 7012

CategoryHumanoids

Models

1

Patents

6

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

Key facts

Revenue (FY2025)

¥2.31 trillion, up 8.5% year on year.

Robotics division

Kawasaki Robotics makes industrial robot arms, duAro cobots and robotic automation systems.

Autonomous humanoid plan (reported, Oct 2026)

Plans a fully autonomous AI humanoid as soon as 2030, with Kaleido using Noetra's Japan-built physical AI platform, per Nikkei Asia.

Humanoid rollout path (reported, Oct 2026)

An initial teleoperation-plus-AI phase comes before fuller autonomy, per Nikkei. Kawasaki is among Noetra's backers.

Shipbuilding robot (reported, Oct 2026)

Shown Oct 6 2026: a four-legged robot that crosses ship hulls to weld, paint and inspect using onboard physical AI.

Shipbuilding robot timeline (reported, Oct 2026)

Demonstration testing next year at Sakaide Works and practical use in 2028; Nikkei Asia first reported it in Apr 2026 amid a welder shortage.

Data & sources

Press releases

2

Patent documents

6

Web sources

9

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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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Partnerships

Every company Kawasaki Heavy Industries has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total1 operating1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1FANUC Corporation1× joint11 total
  2. 2Fujitsu1× joint
  3. 3Medicaroid1× joint1 total
  4. 4NVIDIA1× joint1116 total
  5. 5Sysmex1× joint
  6. 6Yaskawa Electric1× joint2 total

Most recent

  1. Fujitsu x FANUC x Yaskawa x Kawasaki Heavy Industries x NVIDIA (Physical AI)2026-07-16
    with FANUC Corporationjust announced
  2. Kawasaki Heavy Industries x Sysmex — Medicaroid JV2013-01-01
    with Medicaroidoperating

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Relationships

MMedicaroidPartnerSSysmexCo-developerFFANUC CorporationCo-developerNNVIDIATechnology partnerFFujitsuCo-developerYYaskawa ElectricCo-developer

Current leadership (1)

Founders (1)

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Former / Previously (1)

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

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

Kawasaki Develops ‘Home LEO’ Social Robot Prototype to Support Older Adults at Home

Oct 9, 2026

Fujitsu partners with Fanuc, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to advance physical AI using Nvidia technology

Jul 18, 2026

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

Jul 16, 2026

Peers

99 peers across 1 segment. Every Kawasaki Heavy Industries competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

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68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%

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