PUDU D9

Overview

Pudu Robotics' first full-sized bipedal humanoid robot, developed by Pudu X-Lab. Standing 170 cm tall and weighing 65 kg, D9 has 42 degrees of freedom, dual 7-degree-of-freedom robotic arms with a combined payload exceeding 20 kg, and the PUDU DH11 dexterous hand for human-like two-handed manipulation. It can walk at up to 2 m/s, navigate stairs and slopes, and uses high-precision visual, tactile, force and auditory sensors for natural human interaction.

Variants & pricing

Full price history

Sensors

• RGB camera
• RGBD sensor
• Tactile sensors (hand)
• IMU

Locomotion

bipedal walking, stair and slope traversal

Manipulation

Arms: 7 DOF · Hands: PUDU DH11 dexterous hand — 11 DOF (6 active, 5 passive), 12 tactile sensing areas, 1018 tactile sensor pixels

Use cases

object manipulation, customer engagement, commercial & industrial B2B deployments

Key facts

• Pudu's first full-sized bipedal humanoid, released 2024-12-19 and developed by Pudu X-Lab, distinct from Pudu's wheeled service-robot lineup (BellaBot, CC1, etc.).
• The DH11 dexterous hand is a stated differentiator: 11 DOF, 12 tactile sensing zones, and a 40 kg maximum lifting load per hand versus a 30 N maximum palm/finger grip figure.
• The official page's <meta name="description"> mislabels D9 as a 'wheeled' humanoid, but the page's own structured data, title, and body copy (walks at up to 2 m/s, navigates stairs and slopes) are internally consistent and describe bipedal legs — treated as the authoritative reading; the meta tag appears to be a copy error on Pudu's own site.

About Pudu Robotics

Commercial service robotics company spun out of HKUST research, focused on AI-driven cleaning and delivery robots for commercial/industrial use. Reported ~23% global commercial service robot market share.

https://www.pudurobotics.com/en · Founded: 2016 · HQ: Shenzhen, China