Kawasaki Friends
Friends is a smaller humanoid from Kawasaki's Robust Humanoid Platform program, intended for work near people such as care and light service.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Prototype
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 2022
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Lighter, human-friendly humanoid concept revealed 2022 alongside Kaleido.
Autonomy, observed
Walking demos at trade shows.
Price and volume
Not for sale.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Kawasaki Friends sits at #90 of 107 with 12 points: deployment 0/50, autonomy 12/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
Other robots by Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
Sources
- 01Kawasaki Robotics humanoid pageKawasaki Heavy Industries
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