Pudu Robotics showcased its latest advancements in Physical AI at the Davos Tech Summit 2026 through the “Robot City” initiative, demonstrating how autonomous service robots are already operating in real-world environments across retail, hospitality, and public infrastructure. The deployment highlights the company’s push to move embodied AI from controlled demonstrations into practical, everyday commercial use cases.
The initiative is centered around the idea of “Touching Intelligence,” where robots perform live operational tasks such as cleaning supermarkets, assisting hotel services, and maintaining public spaces, showing how AI-driven robotics is increasingly integrated into urban environments.
At the core of the showcase is Pudu’s embodied AI framework, which enables robots to perceive environments, navigate dynamic conditions, and execute tasks autonomously without rigid pre-programming. The system is designed to function across different robot types, allowing cleaning robots, delivery robots, and service robots to operate under a shared intelligence layer.
This architecture reflects a broader industry shift toward scalable robotics platforms that prioritize adaptability across multiple operational environments rather than single-purpose automation systems.
During the Robot City program, Pudu deployed robots across multiple live scenarios to demonstrate operational readiness in complex environments. In retail settings, robots handled autonomous floor cleaning while navigating customers and store layouts. In hospitality environments, service robots supported guest interactions and logistics workflows such as deliveries and internal transport.
In public infrastructure environments, robots operated in outdoor and semi-outdoor areas, using advanced sensor fusion to safely navigate pedestrian traffic and changing environmental conditions. These deployments illustrate the growing reliability of Physical AI systems in uncontrolled, real-world settings.
A key highlight of Pudu’s approach is its unified AI architecture, which powers different robot categories through a shared cognitive system. This includes perception, navigation, and multi-agent coordination capabilities that allow fleets of robots to operate collaboratively across environments.
By leveraging a common intelligence framework, the company reduces deployment complexity and enables faster scaling of robotics solutions across industries such as retail, hospitality, healthcare, and logistics.
Pudu Robotics reports large-scale global adoption of its systems, with deployments spanning multiple countries and industries. Its robots are already widely used in commercial cleaning, delivery services, and hospitality operations, reflecting growing enterprise demand for automation solutions that enhance efficiency and reduce operational workload.
The Davos showcase reinforces how these systems are evolving from isolated pilots into integrated components of modern service infrastructure.
Pudu Robotics’ presence at Davos highlights a broader transition in robotics, where Physical AI is shifting from experimental deployments to scalable, real-world operational systems embedded in everyday environments.
About Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics, a global leader in the commercial service robotics sector, is dedicated to empowering easier work and better lives through AI and robotics, with a vision of building a global intelligent robotics infrastructure that serves 10 billion people worldwide.
Pudu Robotics has developed key core technologies and components, including robotic joint modules and motion controllers, and has filed more than 1,800 patent applications worldwide. Built on three core technologies—Embodied Navigation, Embodied Manipulation, and Embodied Interaction—Pudu Robotics has pioneered an "One Brain, Multiple Embodiments" architecture, establishing a comprehensive product portfolio that includes specialized, semi-humanoid, and humanoid robots.
Currently, Pudu offers four major product lines: service delivery, commercial cleaning, industrial delivery and general embodied AI. Its solutions are widely deployed across industries such as retail, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate and property services, healthcare, entertainment and sport, education, and public services.
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