Kawada Robotics
Tokyo maker of the NEXTAGE dual arm humanoid industrial robots and the HRP research humanoids, part of the Kawada group.
Kawada Robotics was established on April 1, 2013, when the business and technology development teams of Kawada Industries' robotics division were spun off, and in 2015 it also took over the division's robot manufacturing and sales. Its parent is Kawada Industries and its holding company is Kawada Technologies. The company is based in Taito ward, Tokyo, with a second site in Haga, Tochigi prefecture, is led by president Naohito Shiroma and has capital of 100 million yen. The group's robotics work began in 1999 with the H6 humanoid it designed and built for the University of Tokyo, followed by the HRP-2 Promet research platform in 2002 and HRP-4, developed with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in 2010. Its main product is NEXTAGE, a dual arm robot in human form for working beside people on assembly lines, first shown in 2009. The current line comprises NEXTAGE (NXA), released in 2018, the compact NEXTAGE Fillie, released in 2022, and ROS based OPEN versions for research. In August 2026 the company said it would take part in the Moonshot research and development programme as part of the Kawada group. No funding round is recorded because the company is a group subsidiary and has not announced outside financing.
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- Founded
- 2013
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- Japan