Adam U

PNDbotics

China

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Adam U is the odd one out in PNDbotics' Adam family, and usefully so: it is an upper-body robot, filed by the company under a half-robot section, mounted on a lifting platform and chassis instead of legs. That is the point of it. Because the platform adjusts from 1.35 to 1.77 m, the robot can be brought to the height of whatever bench, machine or shelf the work happens at rather than the other way around, which makes it a workstation-shaped platform for manipulation and teleoperation research rather than a walking machine. It carries a head with 2 degrees of freedom, a 3 degree-of-freedom waist braked on both roll and pitch, and two arms at 13 degrees of freedom each, including a two-joint wrist and a six-joint dexterous hand with thumb abduction and flexion plus four finger flexions, for 31 degrees of freedom in total. The main unit weighs 26 kg and the lifting platform and chassis add 48 kg. It runs the same two-computer stack as the full-size variants, an Intel NUC12WSKi7 for motion control and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB at 100 TOPS for perception and decision making, with the same 1172 watt-hour battery and Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0, plus wired Ethernet which the walking variants do not list. PNDbotics ships a demonstration application that records retargeted motion across all 31 joints and fingers and replays it as cyclic motion, which is exactly the workflow a manipulation research platform needs.