KAWADA Robotics Corporation Timeline

Events

• 2024-05-08 - Demonstration - Kawada Robotics announces NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN exhibit at ICRA 2024 - Kawada Robotics announced that NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN would be exhibited at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama. The robot was scheduled for Kawada Robotics booth IC103 during the May 13-17 conference. The company also planned to show NEXTAGE at a May 17 workshop and offered… - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2022-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada releases NEXTAGE Fillie service robot model - Kawada's company history lists the release of NEXTAGE Fillie. The event marks an additional product milestone in the company's NEXTAGE robot line. Japanese robotics builder with a long-running humanoid research lineage and a commercial dual-arm industrial… - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2018-12-08 - Research Publication - Preparatory manipulation-planning paper evaluates single- and dual-arm tasks on NEXTAGE - The paper proposes a regrasp-graph planner for reorienting objects through single-arm, dual-arm, and mixed manipulation sequences. The authors evaluate the planner across humanoid platforms including NEXTAGE, HRP2Kai, and HRP5P in simulation and real-world… - source: arxiv.org
• 2018-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada releases NEXTAGE NXA collaborative robot series - Kawada's company history lists the release of the NEXTAGE NXA series. The release extended the NEXTAGE line of collaborative humanoid-style industrial robots. Japanese robotics builder with a long-running humanoid research lineage and a commercial dual-arm… - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2015-01-01 - Org Change - Kawada Robotics takes over robot manufacturing and sales from Kawada Industries - Kawada Robotics took over robot manufacturing and sales operations from Kawada Industries in 2015. The transfer consolidated the NEXTAGE robotics business in the dedicated robotics company. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2013-04-01 - Company Formation - Kawada Robotics Corporation is established - The company was established by spinning out business and technology development functions from Kawada Industries' Robotics Division Became the dedicated robotics company within the Kawada group - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2013-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces NEXTAGE OPEN robot development platform - Kawada's company history lists the announcement of NEXTAGE OPEN. The milestone positioned NEXTAGE as an open development platform for robot applications. Japanese robotics builder with a long-running humanoid research lineage and a commercial dual-arm… - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2013-01-01 - Award - NEXTAGE receives Good Design Gold Award - NEXTAGE received a Good Design Gold Award in 2013. The award recognised the industrial humanoid’s design for collaborative factory work. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2012-01-01 - Award - Flexible automatic assembly line using NEXTAGE wins Robot Award special prize - A flexible automatic assembly line using NEXTAGE won a special prize in Japan’s Robot Award programme. The awarded system demonstrated human-compatible dual-arm automation in an assembly workflow. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2010-11-08 - Research Publication - Kawada and AIST announce HRP-4 research platform for working humanoid robots - HRP-4 has 34 degrees of freedom, including seven per arm, in a 151 cm, 39 kg body. Each arm carries 0.5 kg, while OpenRTM-aist and a real-time Linux stack support research software. Kawada Industries and AIST designed the platform for human-scale… - source: aist.go.jp
• 2010-01-01 - Award - Kawada receives technical achievement award for NEXTAGE development - Kawada received a technical-achievement award for development of the NEXTAGE industrial humanoid. The recognition covered the engineering work behind a dual-arm robot designed to work alongside people. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2009-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces HIRO upper-body humanoid research platform - Kawada introduced HIRO as an upper-body humanoid research platform in 2009. The dual-arm system was developed for human-robot collaboration research. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2009-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces NEXTAGE at IREX 2009 - Kawada presented NEXTAGE at the 2009 International Robot Exhibition. The dual-arm humanoid platform was designed for industrial work alongside people. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2007-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces HRP-3 Promet Mk-II humanoid platform - Kawada introduced HRP-3 Promet Mk-II as a weather-resistant humanoid research platform in 2007. The model extended the HRP line toward work in outdoor and industrial environments. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp
• 2002-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces HRP-2 Promet research humanoid platform - Kawada introduced HRP-2 Promet as a full-body humanoid research platform in 2002. The platform became part of Japan’s HRP humanoid research lineage. - source: kawadarobot.co.jp