Redwood City, CA – May 08, 2025 – Dexterity, a global leader in physical AI and robotics, today announced a strategic partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., a global lead in robotic arm manufacturing, to produce high-performance robot arms for Dexterity’s hardware platform: the Mech.
The Mech is a roving, two-armed robot designed from the ground up to embody Physical AI in industrial applications. Its roving base enables it to go where large enterprises need heavy lifting of a wide range of goods, and its lightweight but powerful, dual arm design enables it to pick and pack goods at the speed of operations—and beyond.
Kawasaki’s expertise in precision engineering has enabled the development of lightweight, 8-degree-of-freedom robotic arms for the Mech. Kawasaki optimized the strength-to-weight ratio of the Mech arms to make them easy to deploy in warehouses, while at the same time ensuring their capability in lifting weights beyond the OSHA limit for a single person lift. The collaboration strengthens Dexterity’s ability to scale production and deploy its AI-powered robots across a wide range of industries in North America, Asia, and Europe.
“Our partnership with Kawasaki gives Dexterity the world-class manufacturing expertise needed to deliver advanced robotics at scale,” said Samir Menon, CEO of Dexterity. “With Kawasaki’s precision engineering and Dexterity’s unique Physical AI approach, we are bringing a new category of enterprise-grade, industrial Mechs to customers for multiple industries worldwide.”
“Dexterity’s innovative Mech design and Physical AI capabilities are delivering transformational value to large enterprises that have yet to benefit from robotics,” said Kenji Bando, CEO Robot Business Division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. “The Mech’s flexibility and intelligence unlock value for business leaders in parcel, ground logistics, retail, e-commerce, and many other markets where adaptability and physical AI-powered intelligence provides a significant advantage. We are deeply honored to collaborate with Dexterity on a groundbreaking project that delivers unparalleled value to the logistics industry.”
Dexterity’s MECH and new Physical AI platform were officially unveiled in February 2025, signaling a major leap forward in Physical AI-powered automation.
About Dexterity, Inc.:
Dexterity, Inc. is a Redwood City, California-based robotics company specializing in using Physical AI to give robots human-like dexterity. Dexterity’s full-stack technology platform spans AI, software, and hardware and is purpose-built to implement an “AI of AIs” approach, ensuring enterprise-grade operational productivity and safety guarantees. Dexterity’s work in Physical AI for airports builds upon existing applications developed for logistics and supply chain operations in the parcel, ground logistics, retail, and e-commerce industries. To learn more, visit www.dexterity.ai.
About Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.:
Since its incorporation in 1896, for more than 120 years, the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group has been providing value to society in various ways based on its state-of-the-art, advanced technologies used for manufacturing products that encompass the land, sea, and air sectors. As a pioneer in industrial robot manufacturing, we have been developing and supplying many high-quality, high-performance robots for a variety of applications such as welding, painting, assembling and palletizing for diverse sectors, including the automotive, electrical and electronics sectors, drawing on technologies and experience accumulated over the last five decades. To learn more, visit global.kawasaki.com