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Kawada Industries is a robotics company founded 1962, based in Japan, developing 5 robots primarily in the Humanoid category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Kawada Industries has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 deployment on record, none maker-verified.
Shipped
1named customer · 1 tied to a specific robot
none maker-verified · on 1 robot
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Humanoid and industrial robots for research and manufacturing
KAWADA Robotics develops humanoid robots for research, including HRP-2 Promet and HRP-4, and the NEXTAGE industrial robot for manufacturing environments. The company serves research and industrial users in Japan and is part of the KAWADA GROUP. Its products are positioned around human-robot coexistence, factory productivity, and robotics R&D platforms.
Active products
5
RoboIndex
54.85
RoboScore 54.85 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- Kawaguchi, Japan
- Founded
- 1962 · 64 yrs
- Website
- www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en
RoboScore
54.85 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #98 of 107·Humanoid·best robot 44.19 + depth 1.67 + news 0.00 = total 45.86
- #252 of 338·Industrial Arm·best robot 45.08 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 45.08
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Developed HRP-4, a research and development platform for working humanoid robots, with AIST.
Kawada Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and AIST jointly developed HRP-3 Promet Mk-II.
HRP-2 Promet was announced as the second-generation robot in the HRP series.
Press coverage
- Development of HRP-4, a Research and Development Platform for Working Humanoid Robots
AIST · Nov 2010
- Blue-Collar Humanoid Robot, HRP-3 Promet Mk-II Developed
Kawasaki Heavy Industries · Jun 2007
- HRP-2 - ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
Robots Guide
Public loss record
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Active products by Kawada Industries
5 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Nextage | Cobot | Payload 1.5 kg·Reach 1.4 m | 2009 | 72.0 |
| 2 |  | HRP-4 | Humanoid | Height 1.51 m·Weight 39 kg | 2010 | 59.9 |
| 3 |  | NEXTAGE Fillie | Industrial Arm | DOF 6 DOF | — | 45.1 |
| 4 |  | HRP-2 Promet | Humanoid | Height 1.54 m·Weight 58 kg | — | 44.2 |
| 5 | HRP-3 Promet Mk-Ⅱ | Humanoid | DOF 42 DOF | — | 43.4 |
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