/PRNewswire/ — Pudu Robotics, a global leader in commercial service robotics, held its presentation today Pudu AI Technology Briefing during the opening day of the 2026 edition of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC)in Shanghai. During this event, the company presented the latest advances in its technological architecture «One Brain, Multiple Embodiments»offering a detailed overview of its physical agent architecture “Physical Agent», while unveiling for the first time to the public, offline, its industrial-level semi-humanoid robot PUDU D7.
Pudu Robotics at WAIC 2026
As embodied AI moves from research to large-scale commercial deployment, the next challenge for the industry is no longer to develop better AI models, but to establish a continuous loop connecting technology, products, commercial deployment and real-world data. Ranked #1 globally in both revenue and shipment volume in commercial service robots, Pudu Robotics leverages its large-scale real-world deployments to accelerate the development of physical AI.
Robots bring AI into the physical world
Recent advances in large language models, multimodal fundamental models, and AI agents have enabled AI to move from simple content generation to understanding increasingly complex tasks. As AI’s capabilities in perception, reasoning, planning and execution continue to improve, it is expanding beyond digital environments into the physical world.
According to the independent market research report of Frost & Sullivan intitulé «2025 Global Embodied Intelligence and Commercial Service Robot Independent Market Research Report»rapid advances in fundamental models and AI agents are accelerating AI’s transition from content generation to real-world task execution. Equipped with capabilities of perception, mobility, interaction and manipulation, robots have become one of the key hardware platforms in the era of physical AI.
The report highlights that commercial service robots, used notably for delivery, cleaning and wayfinding, provide a direct response to the challenges faced by the sector, such as rising labor costs and operational inefficiencies, and thus provide a concrete basis for immediate and large-scale commercial deployment.
One brain, many incarnations: a unified platform for robotics
As embodied AI advances toward commercialization, the industry faces many common challenges, including availability of real-world data, engineering and manufacturing capabilities, sustainable commercial deployment and global scalability. To address these challenges, Pudu Robotics continues to develop its “One Brain, Many Incarnations” technology philosophy, which allows different forms of robots to share the same underlying intelligence through a unified model and software architecture.
“By establishing a unified intelligence foundation, we enable different forms of robots to share the same ‘brain,’ enabling robotics to evolve from autonomous intelligence to a platform-based intelligence ecosystem,” said Shawn Wu, general manager of the Embodied AI product line at Pudu Robotics.
Implementing a three-tier architecture for platform-level intelligence
In accordance with this philosophy, Pudu has developed an architecture Physical Agent three layers. Together, these layers allow robots to complete the full operational cycle of perception, understanding, planning, execution and feedback in real environments.
- “Robot Body” layer: multiple robot shapes for different tasks
The “robot body” layer serves as the physical interface between AI and the real world. Pudu continues to develop several types of products suitable for the requirements of various scenarios, including specialized, semi-humanoid and humanoid robots. Each form is intended for a specific task: specialized robots take on repetitive and highly standardized tasks, semi-humanoid robots operate in complex industrial and commercial environments, and humanoid robots explore the possibilities of limitless human-robot collaboration.
- “System” layer: PuduAgent OS, the intelligent operating system
A true central intelligence platform connecting models, skills and robotic bodies, Pudu launched PuduAgent OS. Through interactive visual-linguistic models (VLM), short and long-term memory modules, as well as safety mechanisms, it ensures task understanding, planning, experience accumulation and safe operation. Its fundamental value lies in its ability to enable robots of various shapes to share the same “brain,” facilitating the transfer of skills from one robot to another and from one scenario to another through the reuse of existing capabilities within a unified system.
- “Skills” layer: PuduFM allows robots to understand and act
The “Skills” layer determines what robots are capable of doing in the physical world. PuduFM, Pudu’s fundamental embodied intelligence model, includes a physical VLM module, a physical intuition model (PIM) and specialized action modules, to equip the robot with real-world understanding, reasoning and execution capabilities. Unlike traditional robots operating according to pre-programmed rules, PuduFM aims to enable robots to understand their environment, anticipate outcomes, plan their tasks autonomously, execute actions and continuously optimize through feedback.
The PUDU D7 makes its first offline appearance
A landmark example of the “One brain, many incarnations” philosophy, the PUDU D7 made its first public appearance offline at WAIC 2026.
Equipped with PuduFM technology, the PUDU D7 supports payloads of up to 14kg and reaches a working height of 2 meters, allowing it to carry out complex tasks such as material handling, order picking at height and warehouse logistics. This makes it extremely versatile for concrete applications in the manufacturing, warehousing and distribution sectors.
From service delivery and professional cleaning to industrial logistics and embodied AI in general, Pudu Robotics continues to expand both the range of robot models and application scenarios supported by its unified intelligence platform, realizing the vision of “One Brain, Many Embodiments” through concrete deployments.
From product leadership to platform intelligence
According to Frost & Sullivan’s latest 2025 report, Pudu Robotics leads the global commercial service robotics industry in terms of turnover and deliveries, ranks first among Chinese commercial service robotics companies in terms of international market shareand holds first place in the world in terms of revenue in the field of commercial cleaning robotics.
As the robotics industry enters a new phase of development, Pudu Robotics leverages more than a decade of experience in commercial robotics to transform real-world operational data into ever-evolving embodied intelligence. The company extends its technology, product and marketing expertise to a unified AI platform supporting multiple forms of robots.
About Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics, a global leader in commercial service robotics, aims to make work and life easier through AI and robotics, with the ambition to build a global intelligent robotics infrastructure serving 10 billion people around the world.
Pudu Robotics has developed key technologies and components, including robotic joint modules and motion controllers, and has filed over 1900 patent applications worldwide. Leveraging three key technologies (embodied navigation, embodied manipulation and embodied interaction), Pudu Robotics has developed an innovative “One brain, many incarnations” architecture, and has thus built a comprehensive product line including specialized, semi-humanoid and humanoid robots.
Currently, Pudu offers four main product lines: service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial delivery and general embodied AI. Its solutions are widely deployed in industries such as retail, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate and property services, healthcare, entertainment and sports, education and utilities.
With a presence in more than 85 countries and regions around the world, Pudu Robotics has shipped more than 130,000 units worldwide to date.
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