Shenzhen based commercial service robot company founded in 2016 by Felix Zhang. Shipped over 100,000 robots to 80+ countries, covering restaurants, hospitals, hotels, offices, and factories. Multiple Red Dot award winner with hundreds of core patents.
Pudu Robotics is a Shenzhen-based robotics company developing autonomous service robots for hospitality, healthcare, retail, industrial logistics, and commercial cleaning. Founded in 2016 by Felix Zhang, the company has become one of the world’s largest commercial robotics manufacturers, with more than 100,000 robots deployed across restaurants, hospitals, hotels, factories, office buildings, and other service environments. Building on years of real-world operational experience, Pudu has expanded beyond delivery and cleaning robots into humanoid robotics. Its product portfolio combines autonomous navigation, fleet management, and AI-powered service automation, allowing the company to leverage one of the industry’s largest deployed robot fleets as it develops next-generation humanoid platforms.
Platform maturity, autonomy stack, and flagship-system specifications in one view.
A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
Published operating specifications for the lead system.
In June 2025, Pudu said it had completed its 100,000th robot and pushed cumulative shipments beyond that mark worldwide. The milestone underscored how far the company had scaled its manufacturing and global distribution before expanding further into industrial and humanoid products.
Pudu Robotics was founded in 2016 in Shenzhen by Felix Zhang. The breakthrough came with BellaBot in 2019, a cat-themed delivery robot gaining worldwide popularity.
Funding accelerated through multiple Series C rounds raising ~$192 million total from Sequoia Capital, Meituan, and Sierra Ventures. BellaBot Pro launched in April 2024.
The product line expanded to PuduBot, KettyBot, HolaBot, SwiftBot for delivery, and PUDU CC1 and SH1 for cleaning. A strategic partnership with SoftBank Robotics furthered global distribution.
In June 2025, Pudu said it had completed its 100,000th robot and pushed cumulative shipments beyond that mark worldwide. The milestone underscored how far the company had scaled its manufacturing and global distribution before expanding further into industrial and humanoid products.
Pudu reached scale before most humanoid startups had meaningful deployments. Its story is about converting service-robotics volume into a broader embodied-intelligence platform, using its global installed base and manufacturing footprint to push into industrial and humanoid categories.
