PNDbotics Adam demonstrates stair climbing and archery at WAIC 2026
PNDbotics showed Adam climbing a simulated staircase and drawing a bow to release an arrow at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, the company's first public stair-climbing demonstration for the robot.
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The sequence signals progress on an unstructured-terrain task that has challenged humanoid platforms broadly. Whether the maneuver holds up outside a curated exhibition booth is unverified.
The WAIC 2026 demonstrations add a newly showcased capability without changing the robot's documented autonomy classification.
On autonomy
- First public demonstration of stair climbing on a simulated staircase setting.
- Archery sequence showed multi-joint coordination for a full-body precision task.
- Exhibition also featured teleoperated motion capture, unrelated to autonomous operation.
On readiness
- Demo occurred in a controlled exhibition booth, not an independent test.
- No commercial availability or pricing was announced alongside the demonstration.
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Coverage framed the stair climbing as a milestone unstructured-terrain capability.
The archery demo was presented as evidence of dexterous manipulation.
WAIC exhibits are often described as proof of autonomous operation.
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- 1Gasgoo Autonews20 Jul 2026
- 2TechEBlog27 Jul 2026
Technical notes
3 sections
Stair-Climbing Demonstration
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai (July 17-20, 2026), PNDbotics showed Adam, its 65.7 in, 43-degree-of-freedom full-size humanoid, walking a simulated staircase with what Gasgoo described as stable balance in an unstructured setting. The outlet reported it as the first public exhibition demonstration of stair climbing for the platform.
Archery Sequence
Press coverage documented a separate demonstration in which Adam held a bow, drew the string, and released an arrow, describing the sequence as a full-body task requiring coordinated strength and timing across multiple joints.
Other Booth Demonstrations
The same exhibition also featured a teleoperated motion-capture demonstration, with an operator’s movements mapped onto the robot in real time, and a separate showing of the Adam-U upper-body platform performing vision-language-model picking tasks. Those are distinct capabilities from Adam’s own stair and archery sequences.