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PUDU D9

Full-size bipedal humanoid from service-robot maker Pudu, with 7-DOF arms and 11-DOF tactile DH11 hands.

activeNot for saleL0 Indexednot buildable

Difficulty index

10.5/13
10.5
Index breakdown
Classhumanoid+5
Costunknown · midpoint+1.5
DOF42 DOF+3
Partsunknown · midpoint+1
How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

Specimen photographs

1 item
  • PUDU D9: The First Full-sized Bipedal Humanoid Robot by Pudu RoboticsPudu Robotics · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

10/13 known
Degrees of freedom
42
Height
170 cm
Mass
65 kg
Payload
20 kg
Speed
2 m/s
Battery
720 Wh
Price
not for sale
Actuators
Pudu joint modules (352 N·m max torque)
Compute
275 TOPS onboard
Sensors
RGB, RGB-D cameras, tactile sensors, IMU

Not in the registry: runtime, bom total, part count. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

  • +Whole-body control
  • +Dozens of actuators on one bus
  • +Balance and fall handling
  • +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine

Openness

0/100
  • not publicCAD
  • not publicBOM
  • not publicFirmware
  • not publicSim model
  • not publicSoftware
  • not publicPolicies

Score 0/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10.

Repos & models

Site

Build it

Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.

humanoidrobot.build/pudu/d9 · Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.

Simulate

humanoidrobots.training/pudu/d9

No public URDF or MJCF.

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

NotePayload is 10 kg per arm. The maker page says some features are not yet available to customers, and no buy path was found (availability approximated). Unveil year (Dec 2024) comes from press coverage.

Sources

  1. [1]PUDU D9 product pagechecked 2026-09-24
  2. [2]Mike Kalil on D9checked 2026-09-24