Shenzhen-based Pudu closed nearly $150M yesterday at a $1.5B+ valuation, co-led by Longgang Financial Holding and Ya Capital. Cumulative funding tops $300M. The story isn’t the round — it’s that a company best known for restaurant robots just became this week’s marquee Chinese embodied-AI bet.
The robots you can actually buy
Pudu ships a real fleet: BellaBot and KettyBot for food delivery, CC1 and SH1 for commercial cleaning, PUDU T300 for industrial logistics. 120,000+ units deployed across 80+ countries. Cleaning alone is 70% of revenue now, and T300 moved 4,000 units in its first year — fast for industrial hardware. 23% global market share in commercial service robots, ranked #1 worldwide.
The Open Platform is why agent builders should care
Pudu Open Platform exposes REST APIs and an SDK for robot control, task dispatch, fleet management, and telemetry. Partners like ToolSense wire the fleet into facility-management stacks; restaurants connect BellaBot to POS systems; hotels link KettyBot to PMS for room delivery. For anyone building agents that need physical-world hands, this is one of the few production-grade robot APIs with real deployed units behind it.
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