Kawasaki · Humanoid · 2022
Kawasaki's Kaleido (RHP — Robust Humanoid Platform) is the humanoid line from one of the world's oldest industrial-robot makers, in development since 2015 and first shown in 2017. This generation stands 1,780 mm at 85 kg with 32 DOF and unusually high industrial upper-body strength — handling loads up to 60 kg — while achieving fully untethered bipedal walking on an onboard battery. Kawasaki hit that stand-alone operation without weight gain through aggressive engineering: a magnesium-alloy skeleton (lighter than aluminium) and 3D-printed resin exterior panels replacing metal, plus integrating the previously external ~30 kg controllers into compact in-body drivers. It demonstrated stand-ups, pull-ups and two-handed grasping, with stereo-camera vision and object recognition. Kawasaki aims Kaleido at disaster response and dangerous industrial tasks, leveraging 50+ years of factory-robot heritage. NOTE: figures from Kawasaki official + IEEE records for this Kaleido generation; the newer Kaleido 9 is a separate DB entry.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Robust Industrial Humanoid (7th gen) |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2022 |
| Origin | Japan |
| Announced | 2022 |
| Released | 2022 |
| Weight | 80 kg |
| Frame | Magnesium alloy |
| Degrees of freedom | 32 |
| Payload | 60 kg |
| Max speed | 1.1 m/s |
| AI model | Bipedal locomotion + balance control; object recognition; two-handed grasping; remote-control + autonomous |
| Actuator type | Kawasaki high-torque joints; 3-fingered hands (grip force up to 40 kgf); industrial upper-body strength |
| Use cases | Disaster response, Dangerous/demanding tasks, Industrial co-working (R&D) |
| Made in | Japan |