Keigan Inc. (株式会社Keigan) · general-purpose humanoid
KeiganGPR
A general-purpose wheeled humanoid from Kyoto AMR and motor maker Keigan, with every part including the actuators, driver boards and control software designed in-house and design data to be published as open source for easier repair. It has 23 axes (2-axis head, two 7-axis arms with grippers, 3-axis waist lift and 2-axis base, with a 24th planned) and was shown both teleoperated and running a VLA model.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A prototype humanoid from Keigan Inc..
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Keigan Inc. (株式会社Keigan)Company · founded 2016 · Seika, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, JapanHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
KeiganGPR has more joints than 22% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for KeiganGPR and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention KeiganGPR 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 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 23 joints
- Actuators & motors
- In-house KeiganMotor actuators, driver boards and control software (the same actuators drove an android's arms at Expo 2025 Osaka for six months); 23 axes now, a 24th planned.
- Hands
- Two 7-axis arms, each with a gripper (8 axes per arm including gripper).
- AI & software
- Teleoperation and autonomous VLA-based operation shown; self-diagnosis to locate faulty parts for on-site replacement; hardware design data to be open-sourced.
- Other details
- Axes: head 2, arms 8 each, waist/lift 3, mobile base 2. Autonomous navigation including elevators, drawn from Keigan's AMR line. Ritsumeikan University's Atsushi Kakogawa advises on actuator and robot design.
From the maker
KeiganGPR is the only humanoid from Keigan Inc. in the atlas.
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
- Built
- Prototype for the AIRoA/NEDO competition, built from March 2026
- Sold or delivered
- not sold; Keigan plans to commercialise it whatever the competition result
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan (Kyoto)
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- KeiganGPR shown at Physical AI Summit
A report on AIRoA's competition described KeiganGPR's in-house actuators, 23 axes and open-source plans.
note (Kazumichi Moriyama) - Keigan selected for AIRoA robot competition
Keigan said it had been selected for AIRoA's national general-purpose robot competition and began building a dual-arm mobile manipulator in March.
PR TIMES via TechnoEdge
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useKeiganGPRKeigan Inc. |  GRWFourierSame jobs: logistics, industrial · Both on wheels · Both in development |  K3W 'Big Hornet'Kepler Exploration RoboticsSame jobs: industrial, logistics · Both on wheels · Both in development |  REX G1RoboScienceSame jobs: logistics, industrial · Both on wheels · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-09-16 | 2026-07-17 | 2026 | 2026-08-17 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 165 cm | — | 170 cm |
| Weight | — | 160 kg | 120 kg | — |
| Joints | 23 | 29 | 43 | 22 |
| Speed | — | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | 16 kg | 30 kg | 10 kg |
| Battery | — | 4 h | 8 h | 4 h |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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