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PUDU D7
Pudu Robotics · China · 2026
Pudu's industrial semi-humanoid: two arms, 14 kg payload, reach up to 2 m and a battery it swaps by itself to keep working around the clock.
PUDU D7 is an industrial semi-humanoid robot launched by Pudu Robotics of Shenzhen on 1 June 2026. It is aimed at factories and warehouses rather than restaurants, which is the market its maker built its business on: Pudu says it has shipped over 130,000 robots into more than 85 countries, mostly tray-carrying service and cleaning machines. D7 is the industrial end of that portfolio - a dual-arm upper body on a mobile chassis, sold for material handling, shelf picking, replenishment and internal transport. The published numbers are modest and specific. The robot lifts up to 14 kg (30.9 lb) and can work at heights of up to 2 metres, which is what lets it reach into high-rack storage. Its arms use force control with tactile sensors that read contact force and pressure in real time, so it can press, grasp and dispense with what the maker describes as millimetre-level force accuracy. Navigation runs on front and rear LiDAR plus a surrounding perception stack, and Pudu argues the robot can be dropped into an existing plant with minimal changes to the building. The most practical feature is the least glamorous: D7 swaps its own battery, removing, replacing and recharging the pack without a person, which is what a claim of 24/7 operation actually requires. The software is the part Pudu wants noticed. D7 runs on PuduFM 1.0, the company's embodied-intelligence foundation model, and carries an end-to-end data collection system that feeds every job it performs back into training - navigation, grasping, interaction. The pitch is a robot whose capability does not freeze on the day it is installed. Pudu also describes a further layer, PuduAgent, as a task engine meant to break down goals and coordinate several robots across a site; that one is presented as direction of travel, not a shipping product. No price is published and the robot is sold on enquiry.
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