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Kawada Robotics

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NEXTAGE, the humanoid dual-arm robot that works beside people

Founded
2013
Robots
2
Case studies
1
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NEXTAGE

Overview

Robotics company of the Kawada Industries group. Its humanoid dual-arm NEXTAGE, with head-mounted cameras, serves electronics, automotive, cosmetics and food factories as well as logistics sites. It also offers NxProduction software with Japanese-language commands and the research model NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN.

Strengths

  • Humanoid dual-arm fits existing human workstations
  • Japanese-language programming
  • Domestic maker support

Latest news

Researched as of November 3, 2026. Each item links to its source.

  1. Announced a NEXTAGE food-handling demo by the Moonshot Goal 3 group led by Keio's Assoc. Prof. Nozaki at TOKYO PACK 2026.

    Source: kawadarobot.co.jp

  2. Announced participation, as part of the Kawada Group, in JST's Moonshot R&D program on AI-robot co-evolution.

    Source: kawadarobot.co.jp

  3. Ran a trial with NTT-ME using a humanoid robot to reduce labor in high-place work for telecom construction.

    Source: kawadarobot.co.jp

  4. Began supporting the University of Tokyo Matsuo-Iwasawa Lab's robot foundation model project, demonstrating NEXTAGE teleoperation data collection at iREX 2025.

    Source: kawadarobot.co.jp

  5. Launched NX-CDS, a waist-mounted collision detection option that stops NEXTAGE on contact, aimed at sites such as food factories.

    Source: kawadarobot.co.jp

Robots we can source

NEXTAGEImage
Wheeled humanoid
🇯🇵 Kawada Robotics JapanShipping

NEXTAGE

Industrial humanoid dual-arm robot that recognizes objects with head and hand cameras and performs assembly or picking at human workbenches.

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NEXTAGE Fillie OPENImage
Wheeled humanoid
🇯🇵 Kawada Robotics JapanShipping

NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN

Latest NEXTAGE model offered for research at universities and labs.

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Case studies

LogisticsIn production🇯🇵 Japan ・ 2021

NEXTAGE automates picking in a spare-parts warehouse

Makino Technical Service automated picking parts from autonomous mobile shelves onto trays and conveyors with NEXTAGE, doing the integration in-house and controlling peripherals through NxProduction.

Kawada Robotics ・ NEXTAGEkawadarobot.co.jp

SOURCES

  1. 1.https://nextage.kawadarobot.co.jp/
  2. 2.https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NEXTAGE-katsuyojirei.pdf
  3. 3.https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/company/

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