Adam

Adam, from China's PNDbotics, is a full-size humanoid (~1.6-1.67 m, ~60-63 kg) in several variants (Adam Lite, Adam/Adam SP, the teleop/research Adam-U, Adam Pro), with quasi-direct-drive actuators and five-finger hands. The research-focused Adam-U is offered to research institutions on pre-order at about $45,000; other variants have no published consumer price. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as research. A China deployment partnership (Tianyong) is stated, not yet a verified deployment.

Readiness

Adam is preorder open at $45,000 (manufacturer target), the 1 capability claim on file is all claimed-only with claimed, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.

Availability

preorder-open

Preorder open.

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Price honesty

manufacturer-target

One price on file: $45,000 (manufacturer target).

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Capability honesty

claimed-only

1 reviewed claim: claimed-only, claimed.

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Real-world use

research

Maturity: research. No verified deployments in the registry.

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Safety record

no-incidents

No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.

What it claims to do

• Picks and packsclaimed-only· claimedevidence ↗

Price

• $45,000manufacturer target · PNDbotics (Adam-U pre-order) ↗ · announced 2025-06-01

Real-world use

No verified deployments on file for Adam.

Safety record

No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative.

Privacy

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Adam.

Specs

dof

~25 DoF (Adam Lite) to ~41-43 DoF (Adam/Adam SP)

hands

five-fingered hands

notes

• Verified: PNDbotics (founded 2023; HQ Beijing/Haidian, with a Ningbo subsidiary) is a full-stack humanoid startup developing its own PSA quasi-direct-drive actuators, control unit (RCU), and BMS. The Adam humanoid appeared at CES, WAIC 2025, and on CGTN's 2026 Spring Festival Gala; an Apr 2026 video showed outdoor stair navigation. Adam is sold/pre-ordered primarily as a developer/research platform to labs.
• Maturity = research: Public evidence is demos (music/conducting, dance, stairs, gala) = STATED capability claims; Adam is sold as a dev/research kit, not deployed at customers. The Tianyong Engineering automotive 'deployment' is forward-looking intent ('will integrate'), no units/sites/dates. No third-party customer runs Adam in production. maturityStage=research (commercial signal is dev-kit sales, not operational deployment).
• Claimed but NOT verified: Any operational/production deployment (Tianyong is intent-only); exact funding ('tens of millions'); a Tianjin plant producing 'hundreds of units annually' (plan, not output); demo capabilities (autonomous conducting, untethered stair reliability) as repeatable field performance; a single canonical named founder (not consistently sourced in English); spec consistency across variants (25-43 DoF / 60-63 kg vary by source).

specs

Adam: ~1.6-1.67 m, ~60-63 kg; variants Adam Lite (~25 DoF), Adam/Adam SP (~41-43 DoF), Adam-U (teleop/research), Adam Pro. V-shaped hip, 3-DoF waist, PSA quasi-direct-drive actuators (~360 Nm peak), 5-finger hands (6 DoF/hand), ~5 kg payload. Adam-U pre-order ~$45k (research institutions).

height_cm

~1.6-1.67 m

weight_kg

~60-63 kg

formFactor

humanoid (full-size bipedal humanoid; full-stack in-house actuators)

payload_kg

~5 kg

What's under the hood

No brain on file for Adam.

Frequently asked questions

Video

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Sources

1. PNDbotics Adam outdoor stair-navigation demo (Apr 2026) · https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/from-lab-to-pavement-pndbotics-adam-humanoid-demonstrates-real-world-stair-navigation ↗
2. Tianyong Engineering + PNDbotics partnership (intent; auto-production integration) · https://news.metal.com/newscontent/103540099/Tianyong-Engineering-partners-with-PNDBotics-to-accelerate-humanoid-robot-deployment-in-China ↗
3. Adam humanoid debuts at a music festival in China (conducting/performance demo) · https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/pndbotics-adam-humanoid-robot/ ↗
4. Adam SP spec profile (~1.67 m, ~62 kg, ~41 DoF, PSA actuators ~360 Nm) · https://humanoid.guide/product/adamsp/ ↗
5. PNDbotics official site (Adam variants; full-stack actuators/RCU/BMS) · https://www.pndbotics.com/ ↗
6. PNDbotics Adam humanoid debuts at CES 2025 -- TechCrunch; Beijing-based PNDbotics showed their Adam humanoid at CES 2025 claiming manufacturing and logistics use cases; $45,000 starting price; full-stack hardware and software from a young startup (founded 2023); no confirmed factory deployment at the time of launch · https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/pndbotics-adam-ces-2025/ ↗ · 2025-01-07
7. PNDbotics (Adam-U pre-order) · https://pndbotics.com/ ↗ · 2025-06-01

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