Product profile
RHP Bex
RHP Bex is Kawasaki’s four-legged robotic platform under development, with a wheeled mode for practical mobility. Kawasaki describes applications including...
Facts
- Company
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- Product type
- quadruped
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- quadruped and wheeled robotic mobility research
- Website
- https://kawasakirobotics.com/tw/blog/story_21/
About RHP Bex
RHP Bex is Kawasaki’s four-legged robotic platform under development, with a wheeled mode for practical mobility. Kawasaki describes applications including inspection, light-load transport, building-material handling and harvested-crop transport, with a target payload of 100 kg.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Quadruped development platform
Core: Convertible legged and wheeled mobility
Function: Tests practical transport and inspection tasks across varied terrain
Audience: Robotics researchers and industrial operators
Specifications
- development_status
- Under development as an open innovation platform
- leg_count
- 4 legs legs
- mobility_modes
- Quadruped and wheeled
- target_payload_kg
- 100 kg target kg
Operations
- Environment
- industrial sites, construction sites, agricultural environments
- Primary user
- robotics researchers, industrial operators, construction and agriculture teams
- Role
- inspection, material transport, robotics development
- Interaction model
- operator-supervised development platform
- Mobility class
- quadruped and wheeled
- Product detail
- robot, 900, 507, 6a55c2cd7ef2523711210348e679fbd766741efdf50adf4406e8da576a92ae99, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Quadruped/Wheeled Development Platform, https://kawasakirobotics.com/tachyon/sites/3/2022/12/RobustHumanoidPlatform-bex.jpg?fit=900%2C900, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, https://kawasakirobotics.com/tw/blog/story_21/, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-18-qa-refresh/kawasaki-rhp-bex-full-off...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Kawasaki robotics orders reach JPY 35.6 billion in FY2026 first quarter — 2026-08-07
- Fujitsu begins physical-AI business study with FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki — 2026-07-16
- Kawasaki prices ¥197.4B share and convertible-bond issuance — 2026-07-14
- Kawasaki and Foxconn co-develop Nurabot nurse assistant robot — 2025-07-04
- Keio University Hospital begins operation of Kawasaki FORRO delivery robot service — 2025-06-04