Kawasaki Heavy Industries News
Latest Kawasaki Heavy Industries news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 8 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational corporation founded in 1896 and headquartered in Tokyo, with major businesses in motorcycles, aerospace, rolling stock and industrial robotics. Kawasaki's robotics division developed the Kaleido humanoid robot and is a long-standing supplier of industrial robot arms used in automotive assembly worldwide.Key facts
Products by Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- RL030N (Robot, 2026) — The RL030N is Kawasaki Robotics' 8-degree-of-freedom robot arm platform built for Physical AI. An extra articulation axis beyond conventional 6-axis arms gives...
Latest Kawasaki Heavy Industries news
- Medicaroid Wins Europe's CE Mark For Hinotori Surgical Robot — Kobe-based Medicaroid, a Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex joint venture, has secured a CE mark for its hinotori surgical robot, clearing a Europea...
- Canon And Fujifilm Ship Japan's First NVIDIA-Powered Next-Gen CTs — Canon Medical and Fujifilm have started shipping Japans first NVIDIA-accelerated next-generation CT scanners while Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo and Ono Ph...
- NVIDIA Rolls Out Jetson T3000 And T2000 To Take Thor Mainstream — NVIDIA has introduced Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules, halving the size and power of Thor while packing 865 and 400 FP4 teraflops respectively, and pai...
- NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3 Edge, Signs Up Japan's Robotics Giants — NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B-parameter world model for on-device robot policy generation, as more than 20 Japanese industrial leaders — FANUC,...
- Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity Ramp Mech Humanoids on RL030N for Warehouse Logistics — Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity are expanding production of the Mech super humanoid robot, built on the co-developed RL030N 8 DoF arm, for warehouse l...
- Japan Targets 10 Million AI Robots and a Sovereign AI Model — Japan's government has unveiled an updated national AI robotics strategy that pairs a domestically built AI model with a push to deploy 10 million AI-...
- Kawasaki, Dexterity Scale Mech Superhumanoid for Warehouse Logistics — Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity expand their partnership to mass-produce Mech superhumanoid robots on the RL030N arm for trailer loading and warehouse...
- Kawasaki Debuts 8-Axis RL030N Robot Built for Physical AI — Kawasaki Robotics unveils the RL030N, billed as the industry's first 8-axis industrial robot designed for Physical AI, at Automate 2026 in Chicago.