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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.","formFactor":"humanoid","industryVertical":null,"environment":null,"maturityStage":"research","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"dof":"42","hands":"11-DoF","notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Pudu Robotics (founded 2016, Shenzhen; CEO Zhang Tao / Felix Zhang) is a large commercial SERVICE-robot maker (130,000+ units shipped across 85+ countries: BellaBot, delivery/cleaning robots). 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