PUDU D7
About
About PUDU D7
PUDU D7 is Pudu Robotics' wheeled industrial semi-humanoid for factory and warehouse material handling. Introduced in June 2026, this generation combines a dual-arm upper body with an omnidirectional chassis and the PuduFM 1.0 foundation model. Its control system coordinates travel, approach planning, grasping and adjustment for shelf picking, replenishment, cart pushing and transport between work areas.
Pudu specifies handling loads up to 14 kg and an operating height up to two metres. Front and rear lidar support navigation, while tactile sensing and force feedback help regulate contact during manipulation. An integrated data-collection system captures robot operation for model training. Autonomous battery swapping is designed to reduce interruptions during extended industrial workflows. The platform is being introduced for industrial applications following the earlier D7 development programme.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: IFA2026 Berlin booth
- Robotic grasping
Demonstrated - 2026-09-04 - Pick up objects requested by IFA visitors. - environment: IFA2026 Berlin booth
Source - Autonomous public interaction
Demonstrated - 2026-09-04 - Pose for visitor photos, take selfies and respond with a heart-hand gesture. - environment: IFA2026 Berlin booth
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Timeline
- Pudu Robotics introduces PuduAgent OS physical-agent architecture
2026-07-17 - Product Launch - PuduAgent OS schedules tasks across robots with different forms and capabilities. The wider stack combines PuduFM physical-world models with skills, deployment data and robot hardware. Pudu presented the architecture at WAIC 2026 alongside the first offline public showcase of the PUDU D7.
Source - Pudu Robotics introduces D7 wheeled manipulation robot
2024-09-19 - Product Launch - The launch configuration stood 1.65 metres tall, weighed 45 kilograms and had 30 degrees of freedom, expandable to 50 with dexterous hands. A battery above 1 kWh supported claimed continuous operation exceeding eight hours. Pudu anticipated full commercialization in 2025.
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Context
Market context
PUDU D7 is Pudu Robotics' semi-humanoid mobile manipulation robot for indoor service and commercial task automation.
- Target environment: Commercial buildings, hospitality spaces, retail sites and structured indoor service environments.
- Workflow context: Indoor navigation, object handling, service assistance, human-robot interaction and task automation.
- Deployment model: Commercial mobile manipulation robot for service workflows and object-handling tasks.
- Commercial maturity: Public Pudu Robotics robot product.
- Adoption constraints: Requires site integration, manipulation reliability, safety validation, workflow setup and support in human-occupied spaces.
- Market position: Mobile manipulation system extending Pudu's service-robot work from delivery into broader indoor task execution.
- Adjacent products: Indoor mobile manipulator for commercial service tasks and object-handling workflows.