Pudu Robotics integrates one AI model into three robots; FCC bans its humanoid and quadruped from US markets
Pudu Robotics Puts One AI Model in Three Robots. The FCC Has Banned Its Humanoid and Quadruped From US Markets.
Pudu Robotics founder Felix Zhang details a strategy to use a single foundation model, PuduFM 1.0, across three robot types: a quadruped (D5), a wheeled semi-humanoid (D7), and a bipedal humanoid (D9). The company claims a data advantage from over 130,000 deployed units. However, the US FCC has banned new imports of humanoids and quadrupeds, and an EU anti-dumping investigation affects its robotic lawnmower. Independent evaluations rate PuduFM 1.0 as 'capable and mature' but note gaps to top-tier competitors in navigation and manipulation.
The article presents a mixed view of Pudu Robotics' 'One Brain, Multiple Embodiments' strategy, citing specific hardware specs and fleet data advantages while explicitly noting regulatory bans on US imports, ongoing EU anti-dumping investigations, and independent evaluations that rate the AI model as capable but not dominant.
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robots shipped globally in 2025
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e. Competing With Tesla: What the Numbers Actually Show Pudu's commercial scale does legitimately distinguish it from most humanoid competitors. When approximately 15,000 humanoid robots shipped globally in 2025, Chinese manufacturers — primarily Unitree and AGIBOT — each shipped roughly 5,000 units. Tesla and Figure AI each shipped fewer than a few hundred to external customers. Pudu does not publish a specific huma
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The strategy has a name ("One Brain, Multiple Embodiments"), a foundation model backing it up (PuduFM 1.0), and a commercial track record few competitors can claim: Pudu has shipped more than 130,000 robots across 85-plus countries over the past decade, and says overseas markets now account for more than 80 percent of its total revenue. What Zhang did not emphasize in that interview, and what the original press cover
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ots run on PuduFM 1.0 via the PuduAgent software platform, which provides a unified API so operators can command different robot bodies through a single interface. PUDU D5 is a quadruped designed for industrial inspection, logistics, and security. It stands on four legs capable of handling 45-degree inclines and carries a payload of 20 to 30 kilograms (44 to 66 lbs). The onboard computing is a dual-processor arrangem
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e. Competing With Tesla: What the Numbers Actually Show Pudu's commercial scale does legitimately distinguish it from most humanoid competitors. When approximately 15,000 humanoid robots shipped globally in 2025, Chinese manufacturers — primarily Unitree and AGIBOT — each shipped roughly 5,000 units. Tesla and Figure AI each shipped fewer than a few hundred to external customers. Pudu does not publish a specific huma
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The strategy has a name ("One Brain, Multiple Embodiments"), a foundation model backing it up (PuduFM 1.0), and a commercial track record few competitors can claim: Pudu has shipped more than 130,000 robots across 85-plus countries over the past decade, and says overseas markets now account for more than 80 percent of its total revenue. What Zhang did not emphasize in that interview, and what the original press cover
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le + PIM + action-expert modules" architecture — an end-to-end pipeline from perception and physics reasoning to joint-level actuation, as Robotics Tomorrow's architecture overview describes. The training pipeline behind PuduFM is what makes the claim worth taking seriously. Pudu trained the model on data collected from its entire deployed fleet — 130,000-plus robots operating in restaurants, hotels, hospitals, facto
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hat framing is accurate as far as it goes — but it also means that neither of the two robots most central to Pudu's forward technology narrative can enter the US market in their current form. The EU lawnmower investigation. The TOMO S Series — Pudu's newly unveiled robotic lawnmower — enters the European market at a moment of active regulatory risk. The European Commission registered imports of robotic lawnmowers fro
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ots run on PuduFM 1.0 via the PuduAgent software platform, which provides a unified API so operators can command different robot bodies through a single interface. PUDU D5 is a quadruped designed for industrial inspection, logistics, and security. It stands on four legs capable of handling 45-degree inclines and carries a payload of 20 to 30 kilograms (44 to 66 lbs). The onboard computing is a dual-processor arrangem
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