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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 a humanoid robot built by PNDbotics.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
humanoid
Maturity stage
research
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
39e263aa-528a-4210-9ee0-ad4db3f8106b

Specs

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specs
Adam: ~1.6-1.67 m, ~60-63 kg; variants Adam Lite (~25 DoF), Adam/Adam SP (~41-43 DoF), Adam-U (teleop/research), Adam Pro. V-shaped hip, 3-DoF waist, PSA quasi-direct-drive actuators (~360 Nm peak), 5-finger hands (6 DoF/hand), ~5 kg payload. Adam-U pre-order ~$45k (research institutions).
formFactor
humanoid (full-size bipedal humanoid; full-stack in-house actuators)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (5)

  1. https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/from-lab-to-pavement-pndbotics-adam-humanoid-demonstrates-real-world-stair-navigation
  2. https://news.metal.com/newscontent/103540099/Tianyong-Engineering-partners-with-PNDBotics-to-accelerate-humanoid-robot-deployment-in-China
  3. https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/pndbotics-adam-humanoid-robot/
  4. https://humanoid.guide/product/adamsp/
  5. https://www.pndbotics.com/

Common questions

What is 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.
Who makes Adam?
Adam is made by PNDbotics, based in Beijing, China, founded in 2023.
Where is Adam deployed?
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.
What is Adam's maturity stage?
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.