Kawasaki Heavy Industries · healthcare humanoid
Nurabot
A self-driving nurse-assistant robot built on Kawasaki's Nyokkey social-robot platform, with two grasping arms and a cargo compartment, that carries specimens and medicine, guides visitors and gives patients hygiene advice; Foxconn wrote the software. Whether it has a human-like head is not stated in the source.
- 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 pilot use humanoid from Kawasaki Heavy Industries with Foxconn (Hon Hai).
Real-world use
Trials began in April 2025 at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan; market launch targeted for fiscal 2026.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Kawasaki Heavy IndustriesCompany · founded 1896 · Tokyo and Kobe, JapanPublic company (TSE 7012).
What it has been shown doing
1 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Works on siteverification trials at Taichung Veterans General Hospital since April 2025: delivers medication and transports specimens · Apr 2025 · kawasakirobotics.com
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Public attention
How much public attention Nurabot gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- 1 reported deployment
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
- Actuators & motors
- Not published. Two grasping arms on a self-driving wheeled base, combining Kawasaki's Nyokkey social-robot platform with its industrial-robot technology.
- Hands
- Two arms that can grasp objects; gripper design not described.
- Sensors & vision
- High-resolution cameras and other sensors for environment awareness and safe navigation (per NVIDIA-sourced reporting); models and counts not published.
- Compute
- Reported to run on NVIDIA AI and robotics platforms with real-time processing; specific chips not named in the sources read.
- Battery & power
- Not published.
- Materials & build
- Not published.
- AI & software
- Software developed with Foxconn; perception, autonomous navigation and natural-language interaction. Specific AI models not named in the sources read.
- Other details
- Has a cargo compartment. Tasks: carrying blood-test specimens and medicine, guiding visitors, and patient hygiene education. Kawasaki says this was the first medical use of Nyokkey outside Japan.
Named suppliers:NVIDIA
Lineage
Every Kawasaki Heavy Industries with Foxconn (Hon Hai) humanoid in order.
Kaleido2017Research
Friends2021Research
Nyokkey2022Prototype- Nurabot2025Pilot use
Kaleido 9 (RHP Kaleido)2025Prototype
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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 yet sold; market launch targeted for fiscal 2026 (Kawasaki). Price not announced.
- Customers and pilots
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan (verification trials from April 2025; also named as co-developer).
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Pilot
Taichung Veterans General Hospital · Taichung Veterans General Hospital · Taichung · since 2025-04
Nurabot is being trialled carrying specimens and medicine and guiding patients at Taichung Veterans General Hospital. Robotics & Automation News
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Nurabot shown at iREX 2025, market launch targeted for fiscal 2026
Kawasaki displayed the Nyokkey-based nursing-assistant robot Nurabot, co-developed with Foxconn, and said it aims to bring it to market in fiscal 2026.
MONOist (ITmedia) - Kawasaki details Nyokkey-based nurse robot with Foxconn
Kawasaki said the robot combines its Nyokkey platform with Foxconn software, began hospital trials in April 2025, and targets a fiscal 2026 launch.
Robotics & Automation News - Nurabot shown at Computex with NVIDIA
Foxconn, NVIDIA and Kawasaki presented the AI nursing robot at Computex, saying it took routine tasks off nurses in trials.
Robotics & Automation News - Trials start at Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Verification experiments of the nurse-assistant robot began at the Taiwanese national hospital.
Robotics & Automation News
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
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| First shown | 2025-04 | 2023-06 | 2023-01-04 | 2025-08 |
| Status | Pilot use | Pilot use | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 130 cm | — | — |
| Weight | — | 30 kg | — | — |
| Joints | — | 28 | — | — |
| Speed | — | — | — | 7.2 km/h |
| Payload | — | 3 kg | 3.6 kg | 15 kg |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | $32,400 | — | — |
Sources
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