Kawasaki Robotics partners with Dexterity to advance warehouse logistics

Japan’s Kawasaki Robotics and California-based Dexterity have announced an expanded collaboration around Kawasaki Robotics’ RL030N 8 DoF robot arm platform and Dexterity’s Mech super humanoid robots for warehouse logistics.

Dexterity is expanding production and scaling deployment of Mechs using the RL030N for warehouse logistics applications including trailer loading and trailer unloading. Dexterity’s Mech design and warehouse logistics requirements shaped the arm; Kawasaki Robotics and Kawasaki Heavy Industries brought precision engineering and manufacturing expertise to turn those requirements into a production-ready 8 DoF robot arm platform, according to a media release.  

Together, the companies combine Kawasaki Robotics’ industrial robot arm technology with Dexterity’s Mech hardware and full Physical AI software stack, featuring the Foresight World Model, to support high-throughput warehouse operations where traditional automation has been difficult to scale.

“Physical AI requires robot arms that combine industrial reliability with dexterity, reach, lightweight construction, and openness to real-time orchestration,” said Paul Marcovecchio, Director - General Industries at Kawasaki Robotics. “Our collaboration with Dexterity has helped sharpen the requirements for AI-driven automation in real warehouse environments.”

“In a warehouse environment, packages vary, boxes move unpredictably, and contact is part of the job. Kawasaki Robotics’ RL030N gives Mech the physical foundation for that environment,” said Keshav Prasad, SVP of Product Engineering and Operations at Dexterity. “By combining RL030N with Foresight World Model, Mech hardware, and Dexterity’s production software stack, we can bring Physical AI into warehouse operations where traditional automation has not been able to scale.”