Facts

• Company: KAWADA Robotics Corporation
• Product type: Robotic Arm
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://nextage.kawada.jp/en/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

NEXTAGE is KAWADA Robotics dual-arm collaborative robot for factory work. It uses two arms, cameras and human-safe operation to perform precision assembly and step-by-step production tasks alongside or in place of workers.

Overview

NEXTAGE is KAWADA Robotics dual-arm collaborative robot for factory work. It uses two arms, cameras and human-safe operation to perform precision assembly and step-by-step production tasks alongside or in place of workers.

Market context

NEXTAGE is Kawada Robotics stationary upper-body dual-arm manipulation platform for industrial assembly and research applications.

• Target environment: Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and research development environments.
• Workflow context: Dual-arm assembly, part handling and industrial manipulation tasks using a stationary humanoid-upper-body form factor.
• Customer context: Industrial manufacturers and research labs deploying dual-arm manipulation for assembly and handling.
• Deployment model: Commercial product from Kawada Robotics for industrial and research use.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available dual-arm manipulation platform with industrial and research adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Stationary base limits mobility. Designed for defined workcell assembly tasks where dual-arm coordination is valuable.
• Market position: Presents with a humanoid upper-body form factor but is a stationary dual-arm industrial system for real factory tasks.
• Adjacent products: NEXTAGE, dual-arm industrial robots

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Dual-arm assembly, part handling and industrial manipulation tasks using a stationary humanoid-upper-body form factor.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and research development environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Dual-arm assembly, part handling and industrial manipulation tasks using a stationary humanoid-upper-body form factor.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and research development environments.

Specifications

• Payload Kg: per arm kg
• Payload Dual Arm Kg: using both arms kg
• Total Dof: 15 DoF

Tags

• Peer Group: Cobot arm
• Workflow: Box handling
• Capability: Force control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2024-06-12 - Demonstration - Kawada Robotics Demonstrates NEXTAGE Fillie at Image Sensing Exhibition 2024 - • Kawada Robotics showcased its humanoid robot, NEXTAGE Fillie, at the Image Sensing Exhibition 2024 held from…
• 2022-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada releases NEXTAGE Fillie service robot model - Released NEXTAGE Fillie and exhibited it at IREX 2022
• 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-a…
• 2018-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada releases NEXTAGE NXA collaborative robot series - Released the NEXTAGE NXA series
• 2013-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces NEXTAGE OPEN robot development platform - Announced NEXTAGE OPEN as a research-oriented version of the platform
• 2013-01-01 - Award - NEXTAGE receives Good Design Gold Award - NEXTAGE received the Good Design Gold Award
• 2012-01-01 - Award - Flexible automatic assembly line using NEXTAGE wins Robot Award special prize - Kawada and GLORY were jointly awarded the Next Generation Industry Special Prize at the 5th Robot Award
• 2010-01-01 - Award - Kawada receives technical achievement award for NEXTAGE development - Kawada Industries received the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Robotics and Mechatronics Division Technical Achievement Aw…
• 2009-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces NEXTAGE at IREX 2009 - Introduced NEXTAGE at the 2009 International Robot Exhibition
• 2007-01-01 - Product Launch - Kawada announces HRP-3 Promet Mk-II humanoid platform - Announced HRP-3 Promet Mk-II as the final product of a NEDO humanoid robot project

Comparable Systems

• LARA - Neura Robotics - Robotic Arm
• YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) - ABB - Robotic Arm
• DOBOT CR10 - Dobot - Industrial Cobot
• DOBOT CR5 - Dobot - Industrial Cobot
• DOBOT Magician Lite - Dobot - Robotic Arm