PNDbotics · Humanoid · 2024
Adam is the flagship full-size humanoid from Beijing-based PNDbotics, a full-stack developer of modular humanoid platforms (project started June 2023). Standing about 1.6 m and weighing ~60 kg, Adam is driven by 25 proprietary PND quasi-direct-drive (QDD) force-controlled actuators delivering up to ~360 N·m of leg torque, and is notable as one of the first humanoids with a biomimetic pelvis for more natural, stable gait. An Intel i7 (NUC) plus PND Robot Control Unit runs a deep-reinforcement-learning and imitation-learning stack trained in NVIDIA Isaac Gym with sim-to-real transfer, giving human-like walking, terrain traversal and disturbance recovery. Its modular, standardized architecture (with an open SDK) lets developers swap actuators, end-effectors and compute. Adam has had a high-profile demo run — playing keytar live at the VOYAGEX music festival, synced dancing at WAIC 2025, and completing the 100 m obstacle race at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games as the only full-size humanoid to finish. Prototype pricing is around US$120,000; sibling variants include Adam Lite, Adam-U (data-collection) and Adam SP.
Price level: ★★★★☆
View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Full-Size Humanoid |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2024 |
| Origin | China |
| Released | 2025-01-01 |
| Weight | 60 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 41 |
| Payload | 5 kg |
| Max speed | 1.7 m/s |
| Battery life | 180 min |
| Chipset | Intel i7 (NUC) + PND RCU |
| AI model | Deep RL + imitation learning (NVIDIA Isaac Gym sim-to-real) |
| Actuator type | PND quasi-direct-drive (QDD) force-controlled |
| Use cases | Research, Locomotion research, Developer platform, Events & performance |
| Made in | China |
