PUDU D9 Context

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

Specifications

  • Height: 170 cm
  • Degrees of freedom: 42
  • Max Joint Torque: 352 Nm maximum joint torque
  • 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
  • Weight: 65 kg product-page specification;58 kg latest development iteration (30 Apr2026)
  • Payload capacity: 20 kg maximum in manufacturer test environment
  • Speed Mps: 2 m/s

Comparable Systems

  • 4NE1 Gen 4 - Neura Robotics - humanoid robotics
  • ALICE 4 - AeiROBOT - humanoid robotics
  • IRON - XPeng Inc. - humanoid robotics
  • Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - humanoid robotics
  • KaiBot - Kinetix AI - humanoid robotics
  • Optimus - Tesla - Humanoid Platform

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