Pudu Robotics Showcases Embodied AI and New Models at BEYOND Expo

Pudu Robotics exhibited at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macao, where founder and CEO Felix Zhang joined a featured session, per PRNewswire and the company's announcement. Pudu and event organizers reported deployments across more than 80 countries and regions; the company website and BEYOND Expo materials cite 120,000 robots in service, while PRNewswire and ANTARA reference a 130,000 figure. Per Pudu's materials, the company introduced an embodied-intelligence foundation model, PuduFM 1.0, and a general embodied-AI agent platform, and showed multiple form factors including semi-humanoid service robots, an industry-grade quadruped, and a full-size biped humanoid.

Per Pudu Robotics, PuduFM 1.0 focuses on deep perception and reasoning in 3D space, prediction of future physical states, and a continuous loop the company describes as "learning, anticipating, validating, correcting." Pudu frames its software architecture as "One Brain, Multiple Embodiments," which it says enables capability transfer across specialized, semi-humanoid, and humanoid platforms (PRNewswire).

Class B analysis: teams adopting embodied-AI platforms typically face significant integration and validation work, because perception-and-control models that perform well in demos still require extensive real-world testing across environments. For operators and integrators, procurement decisions hinge on field reliability, serviceability, and upgrade paths as much as on foundation-model capability claims.