PNDbotics Demonstrates Adam Humanoid Dancing Charleston
Last week, Chinese robotics firm PNDbotics demonstrated Adam, a 1.6-meter, 60-kilogram humanoid, performing the Charleston to showcase advanced whole-body control. Unveiled at WAIC in August 2025, Adam features 41 degrees of freedom, 25 quasi-direct-drive actuators (up to 360 Nm), optimized trajectory planning, and a low-latency control stack; PNDbotics also released Adam-U Ultra with a VLA model and 10,000 samples to accelerate manipulation learning.
Key Points
- 1Demonstrates Adam performing Charleston using 41 degrees of freedom and 25 QDD high-torque actuators
- 2Highlights progress in whole-body control via optimized trajectory planning and low-latency synchronization
- 3Enables faster deployment: Adam-U Ultra ships a VLA model and 10,000 samples for rapid learning
Scoring Rationale
Solid product and dataset release with demonstrable hardware advances, but limited immediate impact beyond robotics research and deployment.
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