PNDbotics · research humanoid
Adam
A full-size biped built on quasi-direct-drive joints and trained with reinforcement learning for lively, human-like motion. Reports give up to 43-44 degrees of freedom; a lighter Adam Lite came first and an upper-body Adam-U sits alongside it.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 167 cmTaller than 54%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
PNDbotics presents it as the first humanoid with a highly biomimetic, human-like pelvis.
Real-world use
First mass-production batch completed in the first half of 2024; shown at WAIC 2025 and, climbing stairs, at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
PNDboticsCompany · ChinaHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Adam is taller than 54% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Adam has more joints than 77% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Adam and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Adam gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Hands
- dexterous
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 43 joints
- Actuators & motors
- Quasi-direct-drive (QDD) joint actuators; PNDbotics builds its own motors, drivers and reducers. Up to 43-44 DoF reported for the current full-size version (167 cm).
- Compute
- Intel Core i7-based control unit on a real-time control network; PNDbotics' PND-Network bus is said to support 100-200 DoF nodes.
- Materials & build
- Modular mechanical design with a biomimetic torso and pelvis.
- AI & software
- Locomotion trained with deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning, including human-reference motion (arXiv paper updated August 2024); real-time motion-capture teleoperation demonstrated at WAIC 2026.
- Other details
- Showed stair climbing in public for the first time at WAIC 2026. Performed on stage at the VOYAGEX Music Festival in July 2025.
Lineage
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Inspenet (2024) reported a first production batch completed in the first half of 2024; volumes not disclosed.
- Sold or delivered
- Not disclosed.
- Where it is sold or used
- China; PNDbotics cites manufacturing bases in Ningbo and Tianjin.
- Customers and pilots
- Not named; marketed to research and education.
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Adam climbs stairs at WAIC 2026
PNDbotics showed the 43-DoF Adam climbing a mock staircase and Adam-U units running VLA picking demos.
Gasgoo - PNDbotics pitches fast skill learning
Interesting Engineering covered Adam's QDD actuators and i7 controller and the new Adam-U Ultra with a preloaded VLA model.
Interesting Engineering - PNDbotics details Adam's biomimetic pelvis
Inspenet reported Adam's pelvis design, RL control and a first production batch completed in early 2024.
Inspenet
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | AdamPNDbotics |  CyberOneXiaomiSame jobs: general-purpose, research · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useCL-2LimX DynamicsSame jobs: research, general-purpose · Both walk · Both in development |  Torobo HumanoidTokyo Robotics (Yaskawa Electric subsidiary)Same jobs: research, general-purpose · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024-09-09 | 2022-08-11 | 2024-12 | 2026-04-02 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | 167 cm | 177 cm | — | — |
| Weight | — | 52 kg | — | — |
| Joints | 43 | 21 | — | — |
| Speed | — | 3.6 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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