DR02
About
About DR02
DR02 is Deep Robotics' full-size bipedal platform for industrial work in demanding environments. Its IP66 enclosure is designed for rain, humidity and dust, with a stated operating temperature range from minus 20 to 55 degrees Celsius. The intended environments include factories, cold-storage facilities and outdoor work areas.
The robot combines legged mobility with articulated arms for handling and other configured tasks. Forearms, complete arms and legs use quick-detach modules so components can be replaced during maintenance. Deep Robotics presents DR02 for work such as cargo transport and emergency-related equipment handling, extending its legged-robot programme into a humanoid form. Its environmental protection and modular architecture describe the hardware design; operational capability depends on the installed task and application development.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Xihu district public crossings in Hangzhou during sustained holiday rain, Hangzhou tourist and traffic locations during the National Day holiday, Industrial and outdoor environments
- Control modes: Autonomous, Interactive Spoken Dialogue
- Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Pilot - 2026-10-07 - Navigate pedestrian crossings and avoid obstacles during outdoor traffic-guidance trials. - environment: Xihu district public crossings in Hangzhou during sustained holiday rain
Source - Multi-terrain locomotion
Claimed - Traverse basic complex terrain in intended industrial and outdoor applications. - environment: Industrial and outdoor environments
Source - Natural-language interaction
Pilot - 2026-10-07 - Give multilingual directions and spoken traffic-safety reminders to road users. - environment: Hangzhou tourist and traffic locations during the National Day holiday
Source - Material handling
Claimed - Transport cargo and deliver equipment in intended industrial workflows. - environment: Industrial and outdoor environments
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Operations
- Operating Milestone
Commercial deployment in 2026 - 2026-07-06 - DEEP Robotics said DR02 entered commercial deployment in 2026 after validation.
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Deployments
- Operating Use
Live outdoor holiday trials; quantity undisclosed - 2026-10-04 - Xixi National Wetland Park; Zheda Road and Wenyi West Road junctions - Outdoor public tourist and traffic locations - DR02 humanoids are undergoing holiday outdoor trials at Xixi National Wetland Park and Hangzhou street junctions for visitor assistance and traffic guidance. Robot count and duration are undisclosed.
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Research
- Deep Robotics robot-model collection
Research Publication - Deep Robotics publishes low-resolution MJCF and URDF models for DR02 Pro and Standard alongside its quadruped platforms, with a separate high-resolution asset library.
Source - Deep Robotics DR02 SDK and policy runtime
Research Publication - The DR02 ROS2 SDK provides separate Pro and Standard control packages, state machines, joint and motion examples, and an ONNX policy runtime. Pro adds a documented motion-tracking deployment workflow.
Source - Deep Robotics DR02 MuJoCo simulation
Research Publication - Deep Robotics’ MuJoCo simulator supplies separate DR02 Pro and Standard models, scenes and runtime configurations. It exchanges joint commands and feedback with the ROS2 SDK for controller validation.
Source - Deep Robotics DR02 Pro motion retargeting
Research Publication - This DR02 Pro toolkit maps SMPL-X and BVH human motion to robot joints with inverse kinematics, visualization and conversion tools. It supplies a robot model and sample source motions for the downstream tracking workflow.
Source - Deep Robotics DR02 Pro motion-tracking training
Research Publication - The DR02 Pro motion-tracking stack trains PPO policies in Isaac Lab to follow retargeted reference motions, then exports ONNX for the companion runtime. It includes playback, conversion and evaluation utilities.
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Timeline
- Deep Robotics tests DR02 at Hangzhou holiday sites
2026-10-04 - Deployment - The tests included tourist guidance at Xixi Wetland and traffic-direction work near busy West Lake-area junctions. Robots answered questions and gave reminders about helmets, overloading and line-crossing while the company evaluated performance in rain and crowds.
Source - Deep Robotics reports DR02 commercialization progress
2026-07-06 - Market Signal - The company’s broader “1+X+N” strategy combines a unified embodied-AI brain with humanoid, quadruped and wheeled-legged platforms. Deep Robotics plans further research investment in humanoid commercialization and large embodied-AI models.
Source - Deep Robotics launches all-weather DR02 humanoid
2025-10-09 - Product Launch - The company lists IP66 protection, operation from −20°C to 55°C and a quick-detach maintenance design. Launch specifications include a 175 cm height, 20 kg carrying capacity, 10 kg arm payload and up to 275 TOPS of computing.
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Context
Market context
Humanoid platform from Deep Robotics with all-weather and IP66 positioning, marking the company's expansion from quadruped mobility systems into full embodied robot platforms.
- Target environment: Industrial sites, outdoor test environments, inspection settings and humanoid development demonstrations.
- Workflow context: Bipedal mobility, inspection-oriented operation, manipulation development and all-weather humanoid platform testing.
- Customer context: Enterprise customers, industrial partners and robotics teams evaluating humanoid systems from a legged-robotics company.
- Deployment model: Prototype-stage humanoid platform presented through Deep Robotics' official product materials.
- Commercial maturity: Prototype with official specifications and positioning, but deployment evidence is earlier than Deep Robotics' quadruped product line.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on humanoid mobility maturity, manipulation capability, weatherproofing, autonomy, maintenance support and task proof in industrial settings.
- Market position: Humanoid expansion from a quadruped specialist, making DR02 a bridge between field legged robots and full humanoid platforms.
- Adjacent products: Deep Robotics X30, Unitree G1, Cyborg-R01, Fourier GR-1
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