Pudu Robotics

Pudu Robotics is a China-based developer of food delivery and cleaning robots for restaurants. The company’s hallmark product, “Bellabot,” is a food delivery robot that has Laser SLAM and Visual SLAM positioning, navigation solutions, and a cat-shaped interface with dozens of exclusive original expressions. The company’s delivery robot lineup also includes PuduBot, PuduBot 2, KittyBot, HolaBot, and SwiftBot. 

In January 2024 , Pudu Robotics unveiled “KettyBot Pro,” the latest generation of its delivery and reception robot with upgraded features such as enhanced object detection abilities, a visual sensor-based tray inspection functionality, a mobile advertising display powered by PUDU Merchant Management Platform, and the ability to personalize KettyBot Pro's expressions, voice, and content. 

Pudu Robotics also develops cleaning robots (PUDU CC1 and PUDU SH1), as well as disinfection robots (Puductor 2.). The company manufactures four core components of commercial robots: 1) motors, 2) single-lin LiDARs, 3) RGB depth-sensing cameras, and 4) computing platforms and motion controllers.

In August 2023 , the company launched an open platform that enables deeper integration and remote management of the company’s robotic solutions.

Pudu Robotics has a global market coverage of 600+ cities in 60 countries spanning Europe and Asia, with its robots deployed across various restaurants, coffee shops, hospitals, schools, office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, and factories.

Key customers and partnerships

The company has partnerships with leading restaurant chains such as the Japanese restaurant group Skylark (3,000 Bellabots; October 2021) and McDonald’s (December 2021). In October 2023 , Pudu Robotics announced a strategic partnership with Japan-based robot integrator SoftBank Robotics to offer an enhanced commercial service robot offering in Japan by leveraging SoftBank’s expertise in the Japanese market and Pudu Robotics’ product and technological expertise in both delivery and cleaning robots.

Funding and financials

In February 2023, Pudu Robotics raised more than USD 15 million in Series C3 funding from Puhua Capital. The funds were earmarked for building a new production base to expand production capacity and to develop products for commercial cleaning scenarios.