PUDU D9

Pudu Robotics (founded 2016 in Shenzhen; CEO Zhang Tao, also known as Felix Zhang) is a large commercial service-robot maker, with more than 130,000 robots shipped across 85-plus countries including the BellaBot delivery robot and various cleaning robots, that entered the humanoid race through its Pudu X-Lab and PUDU Embodied groups. Its humanoid line comprises the PUDU D9, a full-size bipedal humanoid announced on December 19, 2024 at 170 cm, 65 kg, 42 degrees of freedom, 352 Nm of maximum joint torque, 2 m/s, more than 20 kg of payload, dual 7-degree-of-freedom arms and an 11-degree-of-freedom hand, and the PUDU D7, an industrial semi-humanoid on a wheeled base unveiled on June 1, 2026, built on the PuduFM 1.0 foundation model with about 14 kg of payload, roughly 2 m of reach, dual-arm force control, dual-LiDAR 360-degree perception, and autonomous battery swap. The registry entity here is the humanoid, which sits at research maturity: both the D9 and D7 are vendor-announced with marketing demonstrations and pre-sale or launch language, and no third-party operator or paying-customer field deployment of either is verifiable. Critically, Pudu's genuine commercial scale in service robots does not transfer to its bipedal and semi-humanoid line, so claims of customer deployment, an opened D9 pre-sale, and PuduFM real-world performance are recorded as claimed-but-not-verified.

PUDU D9 is listed at $16,000 to $30,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an analyst estimate, not an official price.

Yes. PUDU D9 is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

PUDU D9's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Degrees of freedom: 42; Height: 170; Weight: 65; Payload: >20. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

PUDU D9 is made by Pudu Robotics, based in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2016.

1 verified deployment of PUDU D9 is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Shenzhen.

PUDU D9 is at research stage and is not yet available for sale.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable humanoid robots to PUDU D9 include Walker S2, Digit, Unitree G1, Atlas.

PUDU D9 and Walker S2 (UBTech Robotics · 18 deployments) are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. PUDU D9 has 1 verified deployment 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, PUDU D9 ranks in roughly the top 44% of humanoid models tracked by the registry.

PUDU D9 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.

PUDU D9 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.