Kawasaki Robotics

Kawasaki Robotics is the robotics brand of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI), a Japanese public company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker TSE: 7012, ADR: KWHIY). KHI's robotics operations are conducted through the Robot Business Division / Precision Machinery & Robotics Company, headquartered in Akashi, Japan.

The company's origins date to 1878, when Shozo Kawasaki founded a shipyard in Tokyo. In 1896 the enterprise was incorporated as Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. in Kobe, and later adopted its current name, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. In 1969 KHI manufactured Japan's first industrial robot (Kawasaki-Unimate) under a licence agreement with Unimation Inc. of the United States. The company has continued to expand its industrial robot lineup ever since.

The Robot Business Division operates a network of subsidiaries worldwide: Kawasaki Robotics (USA), Inc. (Wixom, Michigan, est. 1990), Kawasaki Robotics GmbH (Neuss, Germany), Kawasaki Robotics (UK) Ltd., Kawasaki Robotics Korea, Ltd., Kawasaki Robotics (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (China), and others. Cumulative shipments have exceeded 210,000 robots worldwide (as of approximately 2025).

The product portfolio includes general-purpose industrial robots (R, Z, F, J and other series), painting robots, silicon-wafer transfer robots, collaborative SCARA arms (duAro), and newer service and humanoid robotics platforms: the mobile service robot Nyokkey (unveiled 2022), the humanoid Kaleido (since 2017), the quadruped Bex, the humanoid robot Friends, and the Nurabot project (jointly with Foxconn, 2025).

In fiscal year 2023, KHI's robotics segment generated revenue of approximately 86.3 billion JPY.