Adam
Full-size general-purpose humanoid robot
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Adam is a full-body humanoid robot developed by PNDbotics, built on a fully modular flexible-actuator architecture for human-like motion and environmental perception. It is offered in several variants (Lite, Standard, SP, Pro) that differ in degrees of freedom and onboard AI/perception hardware. The platform pairs quasi-direct-drive force-controlled joints with a whole-body-control and model-predictive-control strategy for dynamic balance.
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Overview
Adam is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by the Beijing-based company PNDbotics. It is designed as a full-body robotic system that combines a modular hardware architecture with an intelligent algorithm platform, giving it motion flexibility and environmental perception intended for complex tasks in unstructured environments.
The robot is built around PNDbotics' own quasi-direct-drive, force-controlled flexible actuators, coordinated by a self-developed Robot Control Unit alongside off-the-shelf compute and depth-vision sensing. A fusion of whole-body control and model-predictive control governs balance and trajectory tracking under dynamic disturbances.
Adam is documented as a family of variants (Lite, Standard, SP and Pro) that scale up in degrees of freedom and onboard AI and perception capability, and is presented for uses spanning scientific research, industrial automation testing, medical assistance and service robotics.
Key Features
- Fully modular flexible-actuator architecture using quasi-direct-drive, force-controlled joints
- Available in multiple variants (Lite, Standard, SP, Pro) with increasing dexterity and perception hardware
- Whole-body control fused with model-predictive control for dynamic balance and trajectory tracking
- Onboard depth-vision perception for 3D environmental modeling and real-time spatial positioning
- Targeted at research, industrial testing, medical assistance and service applications
Specifications
Connectivity
| Communication | WiFi, Ethernet |
Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 49 |
| Locomotion | Bipedal |
Performance
| Max Speed | 1.5 m/s |
Physical
| Weight | 63 kg |
| Height | 1750 mm |
Sensing
| Sensors | RGB cameras, depth sensors, force-torque sensors |
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