Pudu Robotics made its IFA 2026 Berlin debut on September 4-5, using the show to give European audiences their first look at its semi-humanoid PUDU D7 alongside a lineup of service, cleaning and industrial robots the Shenzhen firm says have already shipped in the hundreds of thousands.
PUDU D7 Semi-Humanoid Wins IFA Innovation Award, Takes Selfies With Visitors
D7's European premiere is the marquee moment of Pudu's IFA booth. The robot interacts directly with visitors, taking photos with them, snapping selfies from its own perspective, gesturing hearts with its hands and picking up objects on request. D7 has already been named an IFA Innovation Award Honoree in the IFA NEXT and Emerging Tech category, giving the launch a marketing push on top of the live demonstrations.
PUDU D5 Quadruped Handles Stairs, Gravel And Sand On The Show Floor
Sharing the stage is the PUDU D5 series - the same quadruped Pudu ran through an obstacle course at the World Robot Conference in Beijing this August. In Berlin the D5-W climbs stairs, walks over gravel and crosses sandy surfaces, showing off a mobility platform Pudu is now pitching for industrial warehouses, tunnels and mining sites where wheeled robots struggle. Together, D7 and D5-W frame Pudu's 'One Brain, Multiple Embodiments' pitch for embodied AI.
BellaBot Pro, PUDU CC1 Pro And T600 Round Out The Portfolio
Beyond the embodied-AI newcomers, Pudu is showing the workhorses that have driven its 130,000+ robot shipments across 85 countries: BellaBot Pro for restaurant, hotel and retail delivery; PUDU CC1 Pro and MT1 Max for commercial cleaning (the CC1 series has now crossed 20,000 units shipped); and PUDU T600 for autonomous material transport with a 600 kg payload. Pudu's Shawn Wu framed the debut as showing 'what robots can actually do in the real world.'
The show also stacks Pudu against the other Chinese contenders on the ground in Berlin - see our coverage of IFA's Robots on the Runway lineup, the PUDU D5 obstacle course at WRC 2026 and D-Robotics' Sunrise chip play under IFA's buzziest home robots. Pudu is exhibiting through Sept 8 at Messe Berlin, Hall 25, Stand H25-354.
Reporting based on Pudu Robotics' PR Newswire release from Berlin.