D9

About D9

D9 is a full-sized bipedal humanoid robot from Pudu Robotics, a Shenzhen, China company known for its commercial service and delivery robots. Developed under the firm's X-Lab research program, D9 stands about 1.7 meters tall, weighs around 65 kilograms, and has 42 degrees of freedom, with six per leg and seven per arm. It can walk at up to 2 meters per second, climb stairs and slopes, and carry a payload of roughly 20 kilograms. Its defining feature is the DH11 dexterous hand: a five-finger, 11-degree-of-freedom end effector with 12 tactile-sensing regions and more than 1,000 tactile pixels for contact-aware grasping. Onboard computing is rated at 275 TOPS, supported by RGB, depth, tactile, force, and audio sensors. Pudu positions D9 for object manipulation and customer engagement, aiming toward what it calls commercially viable embodied intelligence.