🇯🇵 Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends
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Score breakdown
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the HMX. Compare it only with other humanoid robots — each category uses its own reference scales. See the full methodology →
Notable
RHP Friends is a lightweight 160 cm bipedal humanoid platform tailored for human coexistence, elder care, and aircraft assembly in confined spaces.
Specifications
Evidence is attached to each value. Robot-wide source links do not verify every field. A source about an older value cannot support the current specification.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
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Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
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Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
unverified · 0 evidence records
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends in context: rank, rivals and specs
Compare with UBTech Walker X →RHP Friends is a humanoid robot from Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan, and it is at the prototype stage. It scores 42.2 on the Humanoid Metric, ranking 108th of 172.
On the leaderboard it sits between UBTech Walker X (HMX 42.3) and X-Humanoid Tiangong Ultra (HMX 41.9).
Against the 172 humanoid robots ranked, its clearest strength is manipulation & dexterity (57.5 against a median of 40.6) and its clearest weakness is commercial readiness & deployment (28.0 against 64.5).
On autonomy, it has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. No deployment is on record.
Its specifications carry a low-confidence grade from 7 cited sources, as of 2026-09-14.
Task evidence
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No task-specific evidence recorded. Capability remains unknown.
Sources · robot-level references, as of 2026-09-14
- https://kawasakirobotics.com/asia-oceania/blog/category/rhp-friends/
- https://unit.aist.go.jp/isri/isri-jrl/en/projects/project-jrp_khi.html
- https://arxiv.org/html/2412.20770v2
- https://kawasakirobotics.com/jp/event/20260729_robostage_friends/
- https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1395227.html
- https://robotstart.info/article/2022/03/10/291992.html
- https://kawasakirobotics.com/asia-oceania/blog/story_21/
Machine-readable: HIS Layer 0 manifest at /robot/kawasaki-rhp-friends/manifest.json, with a free API key · what's this?
Frequently asked questions about the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends
How much does the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends cost?
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has not published a price for the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends, and none is estimated here.
What are the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends's specs?
Published specifications: degrees of freedom 30, height 168 cm, weight 54 kg. Not published: payload, speed, runtime and degrees of freedom per hand.
Is the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends autonomous?
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. The grade reflects demonstrations, not marketing claims.
How does the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends compare to the UBTech Walker X?
On the HMX, the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends scores 42.2 and the UBTech Walker X 42.3. The Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends leads on manipulation & dexterity and hardware & engineering; the UBTech Walker X leads on mobility & locomotion.
Who makes the Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends?
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries RHP Friends is made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, in Japan.
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Change history · 1 applied update
- New model New model: RHP Friends (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) (confirmed facts only) 2026-09-21T05:10:32+00:00 · by agent-regrade