Pudu Robotics — China Robotics

Core robot products

PuduBotBellaBotHolaBotKettyBotFlashBotCC1 cleaning robotT300 industrial AMR

Key industries

Food & beverageHospitalityRetail & commercialHealthcare & elderly careManufacturing & logisticsProperty services

Applications & cases

Restaurant food delivery and dish returnHotel room deliveryCommercial cleaning in retail and property environmentsIndustrial material transportationNursing-home and healthcare service

Company overview

PUDU Robotics (普渡科技) is a Shenzhen-based robotics company founded in 2016. Its portfolio spans service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial delivery and embodied AI. As of 2026, PUDU reports more than 130,000 robots shipped across 85+ countries and regions, supported by three R&D centers, three factories and five overseas subsidiaries. PUDU has publicly disclosed more than US$300 million in cumulative funding. Its disclosed rounds include a US$15M+ Series B led by Meituan and a nearly US$15M Series B+ led by Sequoia China in 2020, approximately US$155M across Series C1 and C2 in 2021, and a nearly US$150M financing announced in April 2026. PUDU stated that the latest round valued the company above US$1.5B. Frost & Sullivan reported PUDU held 23% of the global commercial service robotics market by revenue in 2023. This is third-party research cited by the company, not a verified current market share.

About the founder — Felix Zhang (Zhang Tao / 张涛)

Felix Zhang (Zhang Tao / 张涛) founded PUDU Robotics in Shenzhen in 2016. According to HKUST, as of 2023 he had 16 years of robotics R&D experience and nearly 300 granted patents worldwide. At age 20, he placed first in an Asian-Oceanian college robot competition and second overall in the APAC region. Before PUDU, he founded technology ventures including Leiphone and Elrobotics.

Founder thesis
Felix Zhang emphasizes commercializing practical robots in real operating environments.

Company evolution

2016

Founded in Shenzhen; began developing food-delivery robots.

2017

PuduBot became its first mass-produced delivery robot and received a Red Dot Award: Best of the Best.

2019

Strategic cooperation with Haidilao and Xiabu Xiabu; introduced BellaBot and HolaBot.

2020

Series B/B+ financing from Meituan and Sequoia China, overseas expansion, and Puductor 2 disinfection robot.

2021

Introduced KettyBot and FlashBot; raised approximately US$155M across Series C1/C2; expanded in hospitality.

2022–23

Expanded commercial cleaning with CC1 and further delivery products; reported deployments in 600+ cities.

2024–25

Expanded commercial cleaning and industrial AMRs, including T300; reported more than 120,000 cumulative units shipped by 2025.

2026

Four product lines span service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial delivery and embodied AI; introduced the One Brain, Multiple Embodiments strategy.

Strategic evolution
From restaurant delivery robots to a broader portfolio of cleaning, industrial delivery and embodied AI systems, guided by the company’s “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” strategy.

Customer & deployment evidence

PUDU reports more than 130,000 robots shipped across 85+ countries and regions. Its earlier milestones referenced deployments in over 600 cities, while a 2025 company update reported more than 700 global partner organizations. The company says more than 80% of revenue came from overseas markets for three consecutive years; these are company-reported commercial metrics.

Catering & Hospitality

Publicly referenced customers and partners include McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Marriott, Hilton and the Skylark Group restaurant chain in Japan.

Retail & Commercial

Cleaning and delivery robots are deployed in retail and supermarket environments; referenced partners include Carrefour, Shell and MediaMarkt.

Industrial

T300 transports materials in factories and warehouses. PUDU reported 4,000+ T300 shipments in its first year and deployments by dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies.

Healthcare & Elderly Care

PUDU lists healthcare among its deployment industries and features Smiling Park Nursing Home as a case study.

Client case | Skylark Group, Japan

3,000+ BellaBots planned across 2,000+ restaurants

PUDU states that Skylark planned to introduce 3,000 BellaBots across more than 2,000 stores in Japan. BellaBot delivers multiple dishes simultaneously, helps reduce staff walking and carrying, supports peak-period operations, offers multimodal interaction and expressive facial design, and can run continuously with quick battery replacement. In an initial survey of eight Skylark stores, 67% of surveyed customers expressed satisfaction with the robots’ presence, according to PUDU. The company also reports reductions in employee walking distances and physical workload. The case illustrates a move beyond pilots toward standardized, multi-site deployment, supported by product standardization, local operational support and field feedback. The stated rollout scale and survey findings are company-reported.

Competitive moat

Large commercial deployment base

More than 130,000 cumulative shipments across 85+ countries and regions, according to PUDU, represent years of real-world operating experience.

Commercialization & localization capability

PUDU reports an international partner network and more than 80% of revenue from overseas markets for three consecutive years; its Japanese operations adapt products to local restaurants.

Full-stack robotics capabilities

PUDU says its proprietary capabilities span navigation algorithms, multi-robot scheduling, swarm control, motion controllers and integrated joint modules.

Broad product portfolio

Four product lines: service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial delivery and embodied AI.

Real-world robotics data & operational know-how

Deployments across restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, factories and warehouses inform navigation, interaction, fleet management and field operations.

One Brain, Multiple Embodiments architecture

The company aims to share an intelligence layer across robot forms for embodied navigation, manipulation and interaction. Delivery-robot data should not automatically be equated with dexterous manipulation or humanoid-control data.

Core strategic thesis
PUDU Robotics is a Shenzhen-based commercial service robotics company evolving from large-scale delivery and cleaning deployments into a multi-form embodied AI platform, with 130,000+ robots shipped across 85+ countries and regions (company-reported).

Sources & methodology

Representative top-10, ranked by commercial footprint and sector relevance; no official China-wide top-10 ranking exists.

PUDU Robotics official company profile, financing announcements and customer case studies