EMERGING TECH

Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M at $1.5B valuation to deploy embodied AI technology 

Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. 

With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded $1.5 billion in valuation and has reached over $300 million in total funding. 

The architect of a variety of robots, Pudu has become a large producer of commercial robots, especially in the cleaning, hospitality and restaurant sectors, with a foray into industrial delivery. The company owes its growth to a building on a foundation of developing a framework of constructing a single “brain” that can be built into multiple form factors or “embodiments.” This allows the company to rapidly evolve numerous shapes and sizes of robots for different environments and roles, while adjusting behaviors around service needs. 

Pudu said this approach has allowed it to distribute across industries and benefit from a multi-sector approach. The company said this earned it a 100% year-over-year revenue increase in 2025, without providing more specific numbers, and that its robotic commercial cleaning segment accounts for around 70% of total revenue. Industrial robots similarly have seen rapid adoption, with over 4,000 units shipped since their market launch. 

Pudu said the funding will allow it to scale up its production and continue to build its massive variety of robotics across sectors.  

Its current robot lineup includes pallet-like flat rolling bots that can navigate corridors and deliver small objects. It also offers larger cabinet-like robots with “cat-like” features for food delivery, cute little bulbous “big-eyed” sweeper bots that clean up corridors and offices – and even full-sized humanoid robots that can provide practical intelligence and movement within warehouses. 

The “embodied AI” market, driven by robotics and artificial intelligence, is currently valued at about 4.5 billion, according to a 2025 report from Markets and Markets, and is projected to reach 23.1 billion by 2030. Much of this market is experiencing significant growth with robots that can perceive, interact and navigate within physical environments using AI and even talk to human counterparts. Rapid market adoption has driven interest in robotics across industrial, domestic, retail, service, delivery and office domains, providing fodder for companies such as Pudu to gain significant traction in the past year.

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