Kawasaki Kaleido
Kaleido is Kawasaki Heavy Industries' full-size humanoid program, shown in successive versions at the iREX trade fair since 2017 and built with industrial-grade components to survive falls.
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
- November 2017
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 85 kg
- Payload
- 60 kg
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, industrial robot components
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Rugged humanoid platform iterated since 2017 (eighth version shown 2023); aimed at disaster response and nursing, not yet a product.
What stands out
- Eight iterations since 2017
- Designed to survive falls
Autonomy, observed
Fall-tolerant walking demos and lifting a person at iREX.
Price and volume
Not for sale.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Kawasaki Kaleido sits at #91 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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