Pudu Robotics, greatest identified for the supply and cleansing robots more and more present in eating places, inns and different industrial environments, is increasing its expertise portfolio into semi-humanoid robots and quadrupeds because it appears past its established service robotics enterprise.
The corporate demonstrated the route of that growth at IFA 2026 in Berlin in early September, the place it exhibited a variety of robots spanning industrial cleansing, industrial manipulation and four-legged mobility.
Amongst them was the D7, an industrial semi-humanoid robotic that made its European debut on the occasion, alongside the D5-W quadruped robotic and the CC1 Professional autonomous cleansing robotic.
The diversification represents a big broadening of Pudu’s product vary. The corporate says it now has greater than 130,000 robots working in additional than 85 international locations, having constructed a lot of its enterprise round industrial service robots equivalent to its distinctive cat-faced BellaBot supply robotic.
Frost & Sullivan ranked Pudu because the world’s largest industrial service robotic firm by each income and shipments in 2025.
The D7 takes a considerably totally different strategy from the rising variety of absolutely humanoid robots being developed for industrial purposes.
Quite than utilizing articulated legs to breed human strolling, the semi-humanoid concentrates its 23 joints in its arms, waist and head. Pudu says the robotic can elevate masses weighing as much as 20 kg.
The design displays one of many rising debates surrounding humanoid robotics: whether or not a human-like bipedal kind is important for a lot of industrial purposes, or whether or not producers can obtain larger reliability and decrease complexity by combining humanoid manipulation capabilities with different types of mobility.
Pudu additionally demonstrated the D5-W, a quadruped robotic able to carrying payloads of as much as 30 kg and navigating stairs and uneven terrain.
The robotic combines wheels and articulated legs, enabling it to change between wheeled and legged locomotion relying on the surroundings. It will possibly additionally get better autonomously after falling.
Pudu demonstrated the robotic climbing stairs at IFA and staged an uncommon demonstration through which the D7 semi-humanoid took the D5-W for a stroll.
Alongside the newer robotic types, Pudu additionally confirmed how it’s including larger autonomy to the extra established industrial robotics markets on which it constructed its enterprise.
Its CC1 Professional autonomous cleansing robotic incorporates a system that evaluates the outcomes of its personal cleansing operations. Quite than merely reporting that it has accomplished a deliberate route, the robotic inspects areas it has cleaned and might return to sections that require further work.
Pudu’s look at IFA was the corporate’s first on the Berlin shopper electronics exhibition.
Though the corporate stays carefully related to meals supply and hospitality robots, the D7 and D5-W point out that Pudu is more and more making use of its expertise in autonomous cell robotics to a wider vary of machines and purposes.
That places the corporate into more and more aggressive areas of robotics, significantly as producers discover whether or not humanoid, semi-humanoid and quadruped machines can transfer past demonstrations and into economically viable industrial work.
