Kawasaki Heavy Industries · legged machine
Bex
RHP Bex
Built from Kawasaki's Kaleido humanoid programme, Bex walks on four legs over rough ground or rolls on smooth floors, and a person rode it at iREX 2022. Kawasaki said it was aiming for a 100 kg payload (one outlet reported 160 kg).
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 100 kgCarries more than 44%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A rideable, ibex-shaped four-legged robot that kneels to roll on wheels fitted to its knees and feet.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Kawasaki Heavy IndustriesCompany · founded 1896 · Tokyo and Kobe, JapanPublic company (TSE 7012).
How it stacks up
Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Bex (RHP Bex) carries more than 44% of the 9 other legged & novel that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Bex (RHP Bex) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheel-legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. At trade shows it was operated by people while it balanced itself, including while carrying a rider.
- Actuators & motors
- Electric leg joints with wheels on the knees so it can walk or kneel and roll
- Hands
- None; carries cargo or a seated rider steered by handlebars
- Other details
- Rated to carry about 100 kg (about 220 lb)
Lineage
Every Kawasaki Heavy Industries machine in order.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries also makes 5 humanoids. See every Kawasaki Heavy Industries robot
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Bex unveiled at iREX 2022
Kawasaki showed the ibex-shaped RHP Bex at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.
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Gizmodo covered Bex, a quadruped that walks or rolls and can carry about 100 kg or a rider.
Gizmodo
Sources
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