/PRNewswire/ — Pudu Robotics, the global leader in commercial service robots, today hosted the opening day of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 be in Shanghai Pudu AI Technology Briefing. At the event, the company showcased the latest advances in its technology architecture „One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” before, provided a detailed insight into his “Physical-Agent”-Architecture and presented the PUDU D7his industrial-grade semi-humanoid robot, for the first time publicly in an offline demonstration.
Pudu Robotics at WAIC 2026
As embodied AI moves from research to large-scale commercial deployment, the industry’s next challenge is no longer to develop more powerful AI models, but to create a continuous cycle that Connecting technology, products, commercial use and real-world data. Pudu Robotics, the world’s No. 1 company in both revenue and shipment volume for commercial service robots, is leveraging its large-scale real-world deployment to accelerate the development of physical AI.
Robots bring AI into the physical world
Recent advances in large language models, multimodal baseline models, and AI agents have enabled AI to evolve from content generation to understanding increasingly complex tasks. As capabilities in perception, reasoning, planning, and execution become more sophisticated, AI is expanding beyond digital environments into the physical world.
Sea Frost & Sullivans independent market research report 2025: Global Embodied Intelligence and Commercial Service Robot Rapid advances in basic models and AI agents are accelerating AI’s transition from content generation to real-world task execution. Equipped with capabilities in perception, mobility, interaction and manipulation, robots have become one of the most important hardware platforms in the age of physical AI.
The report highlights that commercial service robots for areas such as delivery, cleaning and sign-off directly address industry challenges such as rising labor costs and operational inefficiencies, providing the practical basis for immediate, large-scale commercial deployment.
One Brain, Multiple Embodiments: A unified platform for robotics
As embodied AI moves toward commercialization, the industry faces several common challenges, including the availability of real-world data, development and manufacturing capabilities, sustainable commercial adoption, and global scalability. To address these challenges, Pudu Robotics continues to advance its “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” technology philosophy, which enables different forms of robots to share the same underlying intelligence through a unified model and software architecture.
“By building a unified intelligence foundation, we enable different forms of robots to share the same ‘brain,’ allowing robotics to evolve from standalone intelligence to a platform-based intelligence ecosystem,” said Shawn Wu, general manager of the General Embodied AI product line at Pudu Robotics.
Building a three-tier architecture for platform-based intelligence
As part of this philosophy, Pudu has a three-layered structure Physical-Agent-Architecture developed. Together, these layers enable robots to complete the entire operating cycle Perception, understanding, planning, execution and feedback to go through in real environments.
- Robot Body Level: A variety of robot shapes for different tasks
The robot body layer serves as the AI’s physical interface to the real world. Pudu continues to develop diverse product forms tailored to the needs of different scenarios, including specialized, semi-humanoid and humanoid robots. Different forms take on different tasks: special robots handle high-frequency, highly standardized tasks; semi-humanoid robots work in complex industrial and commercial environments; and humanoid robots explore the possibilities of open human-robot collaboration.
- System level: PuduAgent OS as an intelligent operating system
As a central intelligence hub that connects models, skills and robot bodies, Pudu has that PuduAgent OS introduced. Using interactive visual language models (VLM), long-term and short-term memory modules, and safety precautions, it manages task understanding, planning, experience building, and safe operations. Its core value is that different forms of robots can share the same “brain,” enabling the transfer of skills across bodies and scenarios by reusing existing skills through a unified system.
- Skill level: PuduFM enables robots to understand and act
The skill level determines what robots are capable of in the physical world. PuduFM, Pudu’s core embodied intelligence model, features a physical VLM module, a Physics Intuition Model (PIM), and action expert modules to provide the robot with real-world understanding, reasoning, and execution capabilities. Unlike traditional robots that rely on pre-programmed rules, PuduFM aims to enable robots to understand environments, predict outcomes, autonomously plan tasks, execute actions, and continually optimize themselves based on feedback.
PUDU D7 celebrates its first public appearance
As an important example of the “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” philosophy, the PUDU D7 celebrated its first public appearance at WAIC 2026.
Powered by PuduFM, the PUDU D7 supports payloads of up to 14 kg and a working height of 2 meters. This enables complex tasks such as material handling, high-altitude order picking and warehouse logistics, making it highly adaptable for real-world applications in manufacturing, warehouse and retail environments.
From service applications and commercial cleaning to industrial delivery services and general embodied AI, Pudu Robotics continues to expand both the range of robotic forms and application scenarios supported by its unified intelligence platform, turning the vision of “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” into practical applications.
From product leadership to platform intelligence
According to Frost & Sullivan’s latest 2025 report, Pudu Robotics is Sales and deliveries global leader in commercial service robotics, ranks first in overseas market share among Chinese commercial service robotics companies and takes the top position in terms of sales worldwide Area of commercial cleaning robotics a.
As the robotics industry enters a new phase of development, Pudu Robotics is building on more than a decade of experience in commercial robotics to transform real-world operational data into continually evolving embodied intelligence. The company is expanding its expertise in technology, products and commercialization a unified AI platform that supports multiple robot forms.
Information about Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics, a global leader in commercial service robotics, is committed to making work easier and improving lives through AI and robotics. The vision is to build a global intelligent robotics infrastructure that serves 10 billion people worldwide.
Pudu Robotics has developed key core technologies and components, including robotic joint modules and motion controllers, and has filed more than 1,900 patent applications worldwide. Based on three core technologies – Embodied Navigation, Embodied Manipulation and Embodied Interaction – Pudu Robotics has developed an architecture based on the principle of “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” and built a comprehensive product portfolio that includes specialized semi-humanoid and humanoid robots.
Pudu currently offers four core product lines: service robotics, commercial cleaning, industrial logistics and embodied AI. Pudu Robotics’ solutions are used across a wide range of industries, including retail, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate and facility services, healthcare, entertainment, sports, education and public services.
To date, Pudu Robotics has shipped more than 130,000 units worldwide and is present in more than 85 countries and regions.
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