PUDU D9

PUDU D9 is the first full-size bipedal humanoid from Pudu Robotics of Shenzhen, released on 19 December 2024. What makes it worth attention is less the machine than the company behind it: Pudu has shipped more than 80,000 robots to over 60 countries, mostly the tray-carrying service robots that circulate in restaurants and hotels. This is a humanoid built by an outfit that already knows how to manufacture, sell and service robots at volume - a rarer qualification in this field than good demo footage. The specification is conventional in size and unusual in the hand. The robot stands 170 cm and weighs 65 kg, with 42 degrees of freedom - six per leg, seven per arm - a maximum joint torque of 352 Nm and a walking speed up to 2 m/s, roughly adult pace, on flat ground as well as stairs and slopes. The arms carry 20 kg together and 10 kg singly. The DH11 dexterous hand has 11 degrees of freedom, of which six are actively driven and five passive, a maximum lifting load of 40 kg, and 1,018 tactile sensor pixels spread across twelve areas - a level of touch sensing that most humanoids in this class simply do not have. Computing is 275 TOPS on board, with RGB, RGBD, tactile and inertial sensing; the battery is quoted at 15 Ah, or 0.72 kWh. Pudu positions D9 for object manipulation and customer engagement in commercial and industrial settings, which is the same market its service robots already occupy. The company notes that some demonstrated features are not yet available to customers and that what is delivered depends on the sales contract; no public price is given and the robot is sold on enquiry. Buyers in the United States face a separate obstacle: since 28 July 2026 the FCC has not granted equipment authorisations to new foreign-built humanoids, which closes that market to models arriving now.

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