{"id":"39e263aa-528a-4210-9ee0-ad4db3f8106b","companyId":"5d25a7bf-79a0-4884-937c-37d791f7aec8","modelName":"Adam","slug":"pndbotics-adam","description":"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.","formFactor":"humanoid","maturityStage":"research","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"PNDbotics (founded 2023; HQ Beijing/Haidian, with a Ningbo subsidiary) is a full-stack humanoid startup developing its own PSA quasi-direct-drive actuators, control unit (RCU), and BMS. The Adam humanoid appeared at CES, WAIC 2025, and on CGTN's 2026 Spring Festival Gala; an Apr 2026 video showed outdoor stair navigation. Adam is sold/pre-ordered primarily as a developer/research platform to labs."},{"label":"Maturity = research","value":"Public evidence is demos (music/conducting, dance, stairs, gala) = STATED capability claims; Adam is sold as a dev/research kit, not deployed at customers. The Tianyong Engineering automotive 'deployment' is forward-looking intent ('will integrate'), no units/sites/dates. No third-party customer runs Adam in production. maturityStage=research (commercial signal is dev-kit sales, not operational deployment)."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Any operational/production deployment (Tianyong is intent-only); exact funding ('tens of millions'); a Tianjin plant producing 'hundreds of units annually' (plan, not output); demo capabilities (autonomous conducting, untethered stair reliability) as repeatable field performance; a single canonical named founder (not consistently sourced in English); spec consistency across variants (25-43 DoF / 60-63 kg vary by source)."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/from-lab-to-pavement-pndbotics-adam-humanoid-demonstrates-real-world-stair-navigation","title":"PNDbotics Adam outdoor stair-navigation demo (Apr 2026)","sourceName":"Humanoids Daily"},{"url":"https://news.metal.com/newscontent/103540099/Tianyong-Engineering-partners-with-PNDBotics-to-accelerate-humanoid-robot-deployment-in-China","title":"Tianyong Engineering + PNDbotics partnership (intent; auto-production integration)","sourceName":"Shanghai Metal Market"},{"url":"https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/pndbotics-adam-humanoid-robot/","title":"Adam humanoid debuts at a music festival in China (conducting/performance demo)","sourceName":"New Atlas"},{"url":"https://humanoid.guide/product/adamsp/","title":"Adam SP spec profile (~1.67 m, ~62 kg, ~41 DoF, PSA actuators ~360 Nm)","sourceName":"Humanoid.guide"},{"url":"https://www.pndbotics.com/","title":"PNDbotics official site (Adam variants; full-stack actuators/RCU/BMS)","sourceName":"PNDbotics (official)"}],"aliases":["PNDbotics Adam","Adam SP","Adam-U"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:23:56.651Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:23:56.651Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/pndbotics-adam","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/pndbotics-adam","name":"Adam","alternateName":["PNDbotics Adam","Adam SP","Adam-U"],"description":"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.","identifier":"39e263aa-528a-4210-9ee0-ad4db3f8106b","category":"humanoid","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}