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Bex (RHP Bex)
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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.

Timeline

First shown
2022-03
Released
Not yet
iREX 2022 (International Robot Exhibition), Tokyo

Maker

Kawasaki Heavy IndustriesCompany · founded 1896 · Tokyo and Kobe, Japan

Public company (TSE 7012).

How it stacks up

Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

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 2026-10-13; 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.

  1. Bex (RHP Bex)Bex (RHP Bex)2022Prototype
  2. FORROFORRO2023Commercial
  3. CORLEOCORLEO2025Concept

Watch Bex (RHP Bex)

Video: Kawasaki Robotics JP (@KawasakiRoboticsJP) on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

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.

  1. Bex unveiled at iREX 2022

    Kawasaki showed the ibex-shaped RHP Bex at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.

    designboom
  2. Kawasaki shows rideable robot goat

    Gizmodo covered Bex, a quadruped that walks or rolls and can carry about 100 kg or a rider.

    Gizmodo

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

designboom Kawasaki's quadruped robot transports people and cargo RideApart Kawasaki Introduces Robot Goat At 2022 International Robot Exhibition Gizmodo Kawasaki debuts a deranged rideable goat robot global.kawasaki.com Bex (RHP Bex): how it is operated IEEE Spectrum Kawasaki’s Robot Ibex: Can It Be Tamed?

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