Facts

• Company: Pudu Robotics
• Product type: Anthropomorphic Biped
• Status: preorder
• Capability focus: Generalist

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

PUDU D9 is Pudu Robotics full-size bipedal humanoid robot. It stands 170 cm tall, weighs 65 kg and uses 42 degrees of freedom with dexterous hands for humanoid mobility and manipulation development.

Overview

PUDU D9 is Pudu Robotics full-size bipedal humanoid robot. It stands 170 cm tall, weighs 65 kg and uses 42 degrees of freedom with dexterous hands for humanoid mobility and manipulation development.

Market context

PUDU D9 is a full-size humanoid for indoor service and industrial workflows, combining bipedal mobility, dexterous hands and general manipulation.

• Target environment: Factory floors, logistics sites and structured indoor service environments.
• Workflow context: Material handling, general manipulation and indoor service tasks using a bipedal humanoid form factor.
• Customer context: Industrial operators and service providers evaluating full-size humanoid platforms for deployment.
• Deployment model: Commercial product from a major service robot manufacturer.
• Commercial maturity: Active commercial humanoid from Pudu extending beyond delivery robots into practical deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Humanoid deployment in real environments is still emerging.
• Market position: Shows Pudu extending beyond delivery robots into practical humanoid deployments.
• Adjacent products: Digit, Apollo, Walker S2

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Material handling, general manipulation and indoor service tasks using a bipedal humanoid form factor.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Factory floors, logistics sites and structured indoor service environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Developers
• Workflow: Material handling, general manipulation and indoor service tasks using a bipedal humanoid form factor.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Factory floors, logistics sites and structured indoor service environments.

Specifications

• Height: 170 cm
• Weight: 65 kg
• Dof: 42
• Payload Capacity: 20 kg
• Speed: 2 m/s
• Max Joint Torque: 352 Nm
• Manipulation: High-precision end effector with dexterous hand support
• Navigation: Visual semantic 3D navigation
• Sensors Summary: RGB, RGB-D, tactile, force, IMU, and audio sensing
• Interaction Model: Multimodal interaction

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2024-12-19 - Product Launch - Pudu Robotics Launches PUDU D9 Humanoid Robot - • Pudu Robotics unveiled its first full-sized bipedal humanoid robot, the PUDU D9, developed by Pudu X-Lab.

Comparable Systems

• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid
• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S2 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform