Kawasaki Heavy Industries · Japan · Full-size
Kaleido (Gen 9)
Kawasaki's decade-long, fall-surviving disaster-response humanoid, now in its 9th generation, shown at trade shows but not sold at any price.
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Grippers, not dexterous hands
Kaleido does not ship a standard dexterous five-finger hand. Gen 9 uses a modular end-effector system so tools and grippers can be swapped quickly for the task at hand, and the early generations were described with two-handed grasping rather than fine finger manipulation. Treat the "hands" as task-specific tooling, not off-the-shelf dexterous manipulators.
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Reality check
This is not for sale and will not be for years: it is Kawasaki's internal R&D flagship, so there is no price, no SDK, and no order path, and the polished rescue clips are staged teleoperated demos by Kawasaki's own engineers, not out-of-box behavior.
Can you get one, and what will it cost?
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You cannot order the Kaleido (Gen 9) today: it is research only.
Nobody, at least not yet. Gen 9 is a research and demonstration unit shown at iREX 2025, not a SKU. Kawasaki's own roadmap targets simple factory work around 2030 and disaster response in the 2040s and beyond, so this is a long-horizon corporate bet, not a machine a lab or business can purchase today.
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Nobody, at least not yet. Gen 9 is a research and demonstration unit shown at iREX 2025, not a SKU. Kawasaki's own roadmap targets simple factory work around 2030 and disaster response in the 2040s and beyond, so this is a long-horizon corporate bet, not a machine a lab or business can purchase today.
Price notes: No price is published, because you cannot buy one. After a decade of development Kaleido is still a Kawasaki R&D platform, not a product with a list price or an order channel. Kawasaki says "contact manufacturer" on the older V8 listing and gives no figure at all for Gen 9. Any dollar number you see attached to Kaleido is invented.
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How the Kaleido (Gen 9) rates
Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.
- Class
- Frontier machineA cutting-edge full-scale humanoid aimed at real work. Mostly enterprise, or still proving out.
- CapabilityHardware specification indicators
- 4/5
- Baseline: any humanoid+1
- Degrees of freedom: not published (inferred from class)+1.5
- Dexterity: grippers, not dexterous hands+0.25
- Scale: 190 cm tall+0.75
Key specifications
Height
190 cm
Width
n/a
Depth
n/a
Weight
99 kg
Degrees of freedom
n/a
Battery
n/a
Payload
18 kg
Top speed
n/a
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Size to scale
Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.
Kaleido (Gen 9): 190 cm / 6 ft 3 in, 99 kg
What it does on day onewith zero programming
Nothing, for a buyer, because it is not a buyable product. In Kawasaki's own controlled demos it walks autonomously while mapping its surroundings with LiDAR, avoids people and obstacles, recognizes and climbs stairs, and under VR teleoperation sweeps debris, moves objects, aims a hose at a mock fire, and lifts a 30 kg fallen shelf to rescue a dummy. Those are staged demonstrations by Kawasaki engineers, not day-one capabilities you unbox.
Best for: Following where a serious industrial company (not a startup) thinks disaster-response and heavy-duty humanoids are headed. It is a benchmark to watch, not a robot to own.
What it takes to developskills, gear, and SDK access
Not applicable in the normal sense: there is no customer, no SDK, and no dev program. Kawasaki develops Kaleido internally, using NVIDIA Isaac Sim for simulation and its own control stack. Anyone hoping to build on it would be negotiating a research partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, not downloading tools.
SDK access: No public SDK or developer kit exists. Kawasaki builds and trains Kaleido internally, using NVIDIA Isaac Sim for simulation. There is no downloadable toolchain, API, or programmable tier for outside developers.
Sources and verificationchecked 2026-09
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