Kawada and AIST announce HRP-4 research platform for working humanoid robots
Evidence notes
- 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 environments and cooperative robot research.
Company context
Japanese robotics builder with a long-running humanoid research lineage and a commercial dual-arm industrial robot line. The company's history runs through HRP research platforms and HIRO into the NEXTAGE family.