Robot Categories

Service Robots

Browse robots by market, form factor, use case, and grade.

Category Guide

Service Robots guide, robot profiles, specs and comparisons

Robots built for customer-facing, hospitality, healthcare, delivery, reception, and facility support roles.

This category page is built as a practical buying and research guide. It explains what belongs in the category, which specifications matter, how to compare robots fairly, and where the public data is still incomplete. The goal is to help a reader make a better shortlist before opening individual robot pages. If a category has limited public records today, that limitation is shown directly instead of being hidden behind filler copy.

Tracked robots19

Robots with price data19

Deployment signals4

What belongs here?

Robots are included when their public specifications, manufacturer positioning, visible hardware, and use cases match this category. Borderline robots are kept conservative until stronger source evidence supports the classification.

What does not belong?

Marketing claims alone are not enough. Robots with unclear form factor, missing manufacturer context, or unrelated automation roles should be reviewed before being treated as a leading service robots example.

Top robots to compare

Pepper, Walker S, GR-2, AgiBot A2, Walker X, PUDU D9, Pudu D9, Agibot A2. Start with these profiles, then compare height, payload, runtime, degrees of freedom, software access, buying status, source quality, and visible hardware.

Manufacturers represented

1X Technologies, AgiBot, Astribot, Bear Robotics, Engineered Arts, FF EAI Robotics, Fourier Intelligence, Pudu Robotics, SoftBank Robotics, UBTECH Robotics. Manufacturer maturity matters because support, warranty, documentation, and deployment programs can matter as much as raw specifications.

Service Robots comparison table

This table is intentionally concise. Open each robot profile for full technical rows, source links, images, videos, and notes about missing or uncertain fields.

Spec	Pepper	Walker S	GR-2	AgiBot A2	Walker X	PUDU D9	Pudu D9	Agibot A2	Walker X	Pudu D7
Availability	discontinued	piloting	announced	announced	announced	announced	review	review	review	review
Price	Historical pricing varied by plan/region; current public...	Enterprise pricing not publicly listed	Approx. USD 100,000 reported; verify with Fourier before quoting	USD 100,000-190,000 reported configuration range	Price not verified	Enterprise quote only; no public MSRP	Enterprise quote only; no public MSRP	USD 100,000-190,000 reported configuration range	Price not verified	Price not verified
Height	1210 mm	170 cm (1700 mm)	175 cm (1750 mm); 170 cm also reported	175 cm (1750 mm)	1300 mm (reported by secondary vendor listing)	170 cm (1700 mm)	170 cm (1700 mm)	175 cm (1750 mm)	1300 mm	165 mm
Weight	29 kg	77 kg	63 kg	55 kg	63 kg (reported by secondary vendor listing)	65 kg	65 kg	55 kg	63 kg	45 kg
Payload	Not verified	10 kg reported; 3 kg in alternate listing	3 kg single-arm payload	15 kg per arm	3 kg (reported by secondary vendor listing)	20 kg maximum payload; 10 kg single-arm payload (test...	20 kg maximum payload; 10 kg single-arm payload (test...	15 kg per arm	3 kg	10 kg
Runtime	Approximately 12 hours in shop use	~2 hours	~2 hours	2 hours	2 hours (reported by secondary vendor listing)	Not verified	8 hours	2 hours	2 hours	8 hours
DOF	20 moving parts / motors	41	53	49+	41 (reported by secondary vendor listing)	42	42	49+	41	30

Buying and research considerations

Availability

Check whether a robot is actually sold, limited to pilots, enterprise quote-only, announced, discontinued, or still a research platform. Availability is often the first filter that removes unrealistic choices.

Specs that matter

Height, weight, payload, runtime, DOF, hand design, sensor package, walking speed, SDK access, and safety documentation are the fields that most often change whether a robot can do the job.

Limitations

Many robots have incomplete price, battery, autonomy, or safety data. Missing fields should be treated as uncertainty, especially for procurement, research budgeting, or public comparison claims.

Future outlook

Service Robots are moving from demos toward pilots and early deployments, but useful adoption will depend on reliability, support, affordability, software ecosystem, and clear documentation.

How Firgelli Robots assigns categories

Robot categories are assigned from the robot's public form factor, intended use case, manufacturer positioning, and available source evidence. A humanoid robot, for example, is not categorized only because it has a human-shaped shell; the profile should also show relevant mobility, manipulation, sensing, software, and deployment context. A warehouse robot should show a logistics, fulfillment, inventory, or material-handling role. A research robot should have a university, lab, developer, education, or experimental platform context.

Some robots legitimately belong to more than one category. A humanoid platform may be both a research robot and an enterprise robot. A service robot may also be consumer-facing. In those cases, the individual robot page is the better place to review the full evidence because the category page is only a starting point. If the available evidence is weak, the page keeps the uncertainty visible instead of treating the category label as a final conclusion.

For SEO and buyer research, category pages should help readers compare real options, understand what data is missing, and move into deeper robot profiles. The strongest category pages combine definitions, comparison tables, source-backed robots, related manufacturers, buying cautions, and links to specification guides such as robot price, payload, runtime, walking speed, and degrees of freedom.

Service Robots robot profiles

Pepper

Social humanoid service robot