PNDbotics · research humanoid
Adam-U
An upper-body humanoid on a fixed, height-adjustable stand (1.35-1.77 m) made for collecting robot-training data: an operator in a Noitom motion-capture suit drives it, and it uses Inspire Robots' 6-DoF tactile hands, a 2-DoF head with stereo vision and a 3-DoF braked waist. An Adam-U Ultra version with a preloaded VLA model followed in January 2026.
- Price
- $45,000Cheaper than 31%
- Height
- 177 cmTaller than 82%
- Weight
- 61 kgHeavier than 49%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Adam-U is on the market today.
Real-world use
Aimed at AI researchers, robotics engineers and universities; no named customers.
Maker
PNDboticsCompany · ChinaHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Adam-U is taller than 82% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Adam-U is heavier than 49% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Adam-U has more joints than 49% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Adam-U costs less than 31% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Adam-U and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Adam-U gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Stationary · 31 joints
- Actuators & motors
- 31 DoF in total, including a 2-DoF head and a 3-DoF waist with a built-in brake; the later Adam-U Ultra uses precision QDD joints.
- Hands
- Inspire Robots RH56E2 six-DoF tactile dexterous hands (included in the data-collection package).
- Sensors & vision
- Binocular (stereo) vision in the head.
- AI & software
- Built for reinforcement and imitation learning, with access to NVIDIA Isaac Gym training environments; Adam-U Ultra ships with a preloaded VLA model and over 10,000 real-world data samples, and PNDbotics offers post-training services.
- Other details
- Fixed, height-adjustable platform (1.35-1.77 m), 61 kg; no legs. Driven by an operator in a Noitom PNLink wired inertial motion-capture suit for data collection.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAInspire RobotsNoitom Robotics
Lineage
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $45,000In-stock price reported at launch.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Pre-orders opened in July 2025 with in-stock units at $45,000; unit sales not disclosed.
- Where it is sold or used
- China (Ningbo and Tianjin bases)
- Customers and pilots
- Aimed at AI researchers, robotics engineers and universities; no named customers.
For builders
Can you program Adam-U? What PNDbotics publishes.
Public documentation, an SDK or open-source code. Organisation page links to the maker's website; licence and per-repo detail not checked.
- How
- Python and C++ SDK, ROS 2 DDS packages, an Adam-U deployment package, motion-capture teleoperation and an Isaac Lab example on the maker's GitHub
- Developer pages
- github.com
From github.com, checked October 12, 2026. This describes what the maker publishes, not what the robot can do.
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Adam-U runs VLA picking at WAIC 2026
Two Adam-U units ran different embodied-AI models picking items on spoken commands and served as a mocap data platform.
Gasgoo - Adam-U Ultra adds a preloaded VLA model
PNDbotics said Adam-U Ultra can learn and deploy new skills within hours with no extra calibration.
Interesting Engineering - Adam-U opens for orders at $45,000
The 31-DoF upper-body data-collection robot launched at WAIC 2025 with Inspire hands and a Noitom mocap suit.
Interesting Engineering
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Adam-UPNDbotics |  pib (printable intelligent bot)isento GmbHSame job: research · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-07-26 | 2024-02 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | 177 cm | — |
| Weight | 61 kg | — |
| Joints | 31 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | $45,000 | — |
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