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      "company": "Kawada Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Japan",
      "website": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/",
      "status": "division",
      "what_it_builds": "Kawada Industries' robotics subsidiary, within the Kawada Technologies group, manufactures NEXTAGE dual-arm upper-body humanoids for factory assembly, inspection and packaging alongside people. It also supplies NEXTAGE OPEN research platforms, continuing the group's HRP bipedal-humanoid lineage.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/products/",
      "founded_year": "2013",
      "founded_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/company/",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "corporate division",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "Classified as a corporate division because it is a robotics subsidiary of Kawada Industries within the Kawada Technologies group (https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/company/). No rounds summed. Excluded: 2013-03-14 announcement of JPY 150,000,000 initial capital for the wholly owned subsidiary, with incorporation planned for 2013-04-01; this was parent-company capitalization, not standalone fundraising (https://www.kawada.jp/news/2013/pdf/130314.pdf). The current company profile states JPY 100,000,000 capital, also excluded because stated share capital is not a financing-round total. No other standalone equity rounds or standalone post-money valuation found as of 2026-11-03; no valuation date available. Parent-group financing and market capitalization are not attributed to this subsidiary. No currency conversion applied.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN",
      "latest_model_year": "2022",
      "latest_model_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/news/1211/",
      "units_shipped": "1000",
      "units_shipped_source": "https://www.kawada.co.jp/technology/gihou/pdf/vol44/4401_05_19.pdf",
      "units_shipped_note": "Approximately 1,000 NEXTAGE-series units cumulatively shipped, reported in Kawada Technical Report Vol.44 (2025), covering the NX01C, NXA and Fillie generations. This is a rounded company-reported count, not an exact total or a full-year figure; the report gives no precise shipment cutoff or model breakdown. It is not a count of HRP bipedal robots.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/",
    "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/company/",
    "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/products/",
    "https://nextage.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/nextage",
    "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/news/1211/",
    "https://www.kawada.jp/news/2013/pdf/130314.pdf",
    "https://www.kawada.co.jp/technology/gihou/pdf/vol44/4401_05_19.pdf"
  ]
}