Pudu Robotics is a China-based commercial service robotics company, and this weekly recap reviews its latest funding, product, and geographic expansion moves. The company raised nearly $150 million, boosting its valuation above $1.5 billion and total funding to over $300 million, and opened a new U.S. headquarters in Dallas to drive growth across the Americas.
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The Dallas facility in the Sherman Tech Center combines offices, a product showroom, and on-site warehousing, and will serve as the firm’s central hub for North and South America. As part of a logistics overhaul, Pudu converted its Santa Clara site into a lean logistics outpost and adopted a dual-warehouse model on both U.S. coasts to accelerate nationwide delivery.
These infrastructure moves support a business that has deployed nearly 15,000 robots in the Americas and posted 285% year-over-year regional revenue growth. Globally, Pudu claims a 23% share of the commercial service robotics market, has shipped more than 120,000 units across over 80 countries, and doubled revenue in 2025, with commercial cleaning now contributing more than 70% of sales.
The company’s growth is underpinned by a broad portfolio spanning service delivery robots like BellaBot and BellaBot Pro, cleaning platforms such as CC1 and MT1, and industrial delivery robots in the T-series. Its D5 series extends embodied AI into more complex, human-centric environments, while partnerships with local distributors have increased 63.6% year over year, expanding its blue-chip customer base.
This week Pudu also launched the AI-native PUDU BG1 Series, a large scrubber-dryer platform that completes its cleaning lineup for warehouses, retail complexes, industrial plants, and transport hubs. Built on a dual-chip, high-compute architecture with 3D VSLAM and LiDAR, BG1 supports AI-driven spot cleaning, adaptive brush pressure, and an all-in-one docking station for unmanned 24/7 operation.
The BG1 leverages millions of operating hours from earlier models and reinforces Pudu’s “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments” AI framework across hardware form factors. Management plans to use the new funding to accelerate embodied AI R&D, expand manufacturing and supply chain capacity, and deepen penetration in retail, logistics, food service, healthcare, and commercial cleaning.
Pudu has also scaled its local U.S. organization from a small entry team into a multifunctional operation spanning sales, after-sales service, solutions, and marketing. Executives position the Dallas hub and optimized logistics as foundations for long-term, scalable growth in one of the world’s largest service and logistics automation markets, marking a shift from market entry to localized execution.