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🇯🇵Hitachi·Japan·Pilot deployment

EMIEW3

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Hitachi's 90 cm service humanoid with a remote brain, trialled in airports and stations.

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Height90 cm
Degrees of freedom—
Arm payload—
Top speed—
Battery life—
Starting pricePrice on request
MakerHitachi
First shown2016
StatusPilot deployment
Form factorCompact
LocomotionWheeled
Updated31 Oct 2026
Service & retailAerospaceDexterous handsVoice interaction90 cm / 15 kgWheeled autonomous baseRemote brainExpression detectionSelf-rightingMultilingual service

What it is

EMIEW3 is the third generation of Hitachi's EMIEW service humanoid, unveiled in 2016 at 90 cm tall and 15 kg. It moves autonomously on a wheeled base, detects people's expressions and movement, approaches customers and speaks to them, and can stand itself up after falling. Hitachi paired it with a remote-brain architecture that handles speech, image and language processing off-board and coordinates multiple robots, and ran field trials at Haneda Airport, Tokyo Station and DiverCity Tokyo Plaza in 2016-2017. It was a trial platform rather than a product and was never sold.

Highlights

0190 cm tall and 15 kg, with a wheeled self-moving base.
02Remote-brain architecture offloads speech, image and language processing.
03Detects expressions and movement and approaches customers proactively.
04Can stand itself upright after falling over.
05Field trials at Haneda Airport, Tokyo Station and DiverCity Tokyo Plaza.

The numbers

Body
Height90 cm
Weight15 kg
Form factorCompact
Motion & power
LocomotionWheeled
ActuatorsWheeled drive base, articulated arms for gesturing and a self-righting mechanism.
Compute, sensing & hands
ComputeRemote-brain robot IT platform: speech, image and language processing run off-board, with a monitoring system coordinating multiple robots.
SensingMultiple cameras and onboard sensors for expression and movement detection, plus obstacle detection for autonomous navigation.
HandsSimple arms without dexterous hands.

Platform & deployment

AvailabilityField trials only; never commercialised or sold.
Target marketGuidance and customer service in public spaces and commercial facilities.
Software / OSHitachi remote-brain service platform with multi-robot information sharing and service handover.
Deployments & partnersHaneda Airport, Tokyo Station and DiverCity Tokyo Plaza trials in 2016-2017.
Safety & certificationsObstacle avoidance and self-righting for operation in crowded public spaces.

Evidence trail

Claims on this profile are linked to primary reporting and manufacturer material where available.

01CEATEC Japan 2016 - Hitachi EMIEW302Hitachi press release - EMIEW3 store guidance trial (February 2017)03Wikipedia - EMIEW

Specifications are sourced from public materials and may change. Always confirm commercial terms with the manufacturer.

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