Adam

PNDbotics (founded 2023, headquartered in Beijing's Haidian district with a registered subsidiary in Ningbo) is a full-stack humanoid startup that develops its own PSA quasi-direct-drive actuators, robot control unit, and battery management system. Its Adam humanoid stands about 1.6 to 1.67 m and 60 to 63 kg and comes in several variants, including Adam Lite at about 25 degrees of freedom, the roughly 41-to-43-degree-of-freedom Adam and Adam SP, the teleoperation and research variant Adam-U, and Adam Pro, with a V-shaped hip, a three-degree-of-freedom waist, PSA actuators peaking near 360 Nm, five-fingered hands, and about 5 kg of payload. Adam appeared at CES, WAIC 2025, and on CGTN's 2026 Spring Festival Gala, and an April 2026 video showed it navigating real outdoor stairs. The registry records it at research maturity: its public evidence is demonstrations of music conducting, dance, and stair-climbing, which are stated capability claims, and Adam is sold and pre-ordered primarily as a developer and research platform to labs rather than deployed at customers. A partnership with Tianyong Engineering to integrate Adam into automotive production is forward-looking intent with no units, sites, or dates specified, so any operational deployment, the exact funding, a planned Tianjin plant producing hundreds of units annually, and the demo capabilities as repeatable field performance are all recorded as claimed-but-not-verified.

Adam is listed at $45,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is a manufacturer target price, not a confirmed consumer price.

Adam is at the research stage: it exists, but DEPLOY has no verified real-world deployment on record. Manufacturer capability claims should be read as claims pending independent verification.

Not verified as fully autonomous. Adam's capabilities on the DEPLOY registry are recorded as teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-only, or vendor claims (Picks and packs), not independently confirmed to run without a human in the loop.

Adam's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Degrees of freedom: ~25 DoF (Adam Lite) to ~41-43 DoF (Adam/Adam SP); Height: ~1.6-1.67 m; Weight: ~60-63 kg; Payload: ~5 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Adam is made by PNDbotics, based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2023.

Adam is at research stage and is not yet available for sale.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable humanoid robots to Adam include Walker S2, Digit, Unitree G1, Atlas.

Adam and Walker S2 (UBTech Robotics · 18 deployments) are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. Adam has 0 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Adam ranks in roughly the top under 1% of humanoid models tracked by the registry.

Adam is at the research stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Research stage means active development without commercial deployments on file.

No verified deployments of Adam are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

Adam has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.