HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet Vietnamese consumers' demand for versatile, multi-scenario fresh-keeping solutions, Haier launches its premium Horizon Collection refrigerator series in Vietnam on May 29, marking the first stop in the Southeast Asian market. From its initial launch at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK to its full market rollout across Europe, and now the release in Vietnam, the Horizon series is rapidly accelerating its global footprint to bring a premium food freshness preservation experience to more consumers.
Four scenarios to meet the tropical freshness demands
Southeast Asia's hot, humid climate demands iced drinks and diverse, ultra-fresh ingredients. Haier's Horizon series comes with innovative freshness preservation technology and offers four scenario-based solutions for daily life.
It integrates Haier's global first HCS humidity control and magnetic-controlled freshness technology, keeping fruits and vegetables fresh for up to 7 days and preserving the original flavor of fresh meat for 10 days. This magnetic technology won a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition and is VDE-certified for keeping over 95% of the protein in meat. It also features the industry-first door-mounted ice making system, completely separated from the food storage area to prevent odor contamination and produce clean ice quickly.
Boasting a large capacity of up to 716L of space, adjustable shelves, and deep door bins, the refrigerator easily stores a full week's groceries for the whole family — including upright 1.5L bottles. Selected models feature AI Vision technology that automatically recognizes and records the type and quantity of ingredients, making food management simple and convenient.
In the meantime, Haier also showcased its Space Fit series home appliance solutions at the Horizon series launch event, the refrigerator from the series features Haier's original AI full-space freshness preservation technology, which keeps temperature fluctuations below 1°C. Even after a month of freezing, steak remains tender, red, and juicy when thawed, with no loss of nutrients.
Vietnam, the strategic springboard for Haier's premium regional expansion
Vietnam is Southeast Asia's largest high-end refrigerator market, accounting for over half of regional sales. In January 2026, Haier's refrigerator sales in Vietnam doubled month-to-month and rose by more than 60% year-on-year, further solidifying its position as the market leader in the region. At retail outlets, side-by-side demos let customers experience Haier's preservation technology. The Space Fit series matched competitors' eight-month in-store display numbers in just five weeks and achieved five times their sales, spearheading Vietnam's smart-home upgrade.
Already leading in both market share and growth in Vietnam, Haier will further strengthen its product lineup to meet rising demand for food freshness preservation with the new global flagship Horizon series.
Furthermore, Haier Smart Home officially launched the Haier brand in Vietnam in 2025 and reached a strategic partnership with the local leading appliance retailer DMX. Its AQUA washers already hold the country's top market share.
As of April 2026, Haier ranks No. 1 in overall brand share across Southeast Asia, with growth exceeding 40% in Vietnam, Malaysia, and other markets. Following Vietnam, the Horizon series will roll out in Indonesia and Thailand, driving Haier's high-end leadership across the region.
The launch of the Horizon series marks Haier's refrigerator segment's shift in Southeast Asia from leader in scale to a premium brand. Looking ahead, Haier will stay user-focused, deepen local innovation and brand upgrades to cement market leadership, and through ongoing high-end innovations and enhanced scenario-based experiences, Haier aims to deliver superior preservation, kitchen aesthetics, and sustainable growth for partners.
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Haier Launches Horizon Refrigerator in Vietnam, Setting New Standards for Freshness and Home Appliance Design
Haier Launches Horizon Refrigerator in Vietnam, Setting New Standards for Freshness and Home Appliance Design
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SHENZHEN, China, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pudu Robotics, a global leader in service robotics, today announced the launch of its new PUDU D7, its next-generation industrial semi-humanoid robot designed for manufacturing and industrial environments.
PUDU D7 integrates industrial-grade hardware with embodied AI to tackle complex operational challenges across factory workflows. Built on PuduFM 1.0, Pudu Robotics' embodied intelligence foundation model, the robot integrates scenario-driven intelligence, large-model reasoning, and practical business value to help industrial automation evolve toward intelligent, continuously learning systems.
Unlike conventional industrial robots that rely on predefined programs and fixed workflows, PUDU D7 can understand tasks, learn from experience, and continuously optimize its behavior in real-world environments. This marks a significant shift from simply executing tasks to understanding them.
"An industrial-grade evolvable semi-humanoid robot—born from real-world scenarios and evolved through foundation models." This philosophy defines PUDU D7 and reflects Pudu Robotics' vision for the future of industrial robotics in the era of embodied intelligence.
Comprehensive Data Collection: Building the Foundation for Industrial Embodied Intelligence
The complexity of industrial environments demands robots capable of continuous learning and ongoing evolution.
To support this, PUDU D7 features an integrated end-to-end data collection architecture capable of rapidly capturing and consolidating operational data across diverse industrial workflows. With low-latency transmission and highly synchronized data processing, the system provides a robust foundation for model training and continuous improvement.
Powered by this large-scale real-world data loop, PuduFM 1.0 continuously learns operational procedures, spatial relationships, and manufacturing processes from industrial environments, steadily improving decision-making and task adaptability over time.
Unlike traditional robots whose capabilities remain fixed after deployment, PUDU D7 continuously evolves through every navigation, manipulation, interaction, and operational task it performs.
Dual-Arm Dexterity: Enhancing Warehouse and Material Handling Efficiency
In inventory storage and warehouse environments, PUDU D7 can autonomously perform high-frequency tasks such as material handling, shelf picking, inventory replenishment, and intralogistics transportation.
The robot supports a payload capacity of up to 14 kg (30.9 lbs) and can operate at heights of up to 2 meters (6.6 ft), enabling efficient interaction with high-rack storage systems.
Leveraging precision force-control technology in its dual-arm system, PUDU D7 can handle heavy objects with exceptional care, minimizing the risk of product damage during transport and manipulation. PUDU D7 can also autonomously push carts and transport materials across facilities, helping improve warehouse productivity and operational efficiency.
Powered by PuduFM 1.0, PUDU D7 moves beyond the traditional separation between navigation and manipulation. Instead, it integrates mobility, approach planning, grasping, and dynamic adjustment into a unified action framework, enabling seamless coordination between movement and operation.
For manufacturers, this enables the automation of more complex, multi-step tasks while reducing manual intervention and system integration costs.
Tactile Intelligence: Millimeter-Level Precision Control
For high-precision industrial applications such as dispensing, assembly, and fine manipulation, PUDU D7 is equipped with advanced tactile sensors capable of detecting contact force and pressure feedback in real time.
The system delivers millimeter-level force-control accuracy, dynamically adjusting applied force based on material properties and task requirements. Whether performing delicate grasping, controlled pressing, or precision force application, PUDU D7 maintains stable and consistent operation while minimizing the risk of component damage.
Combined with the physical-world understanding capabilities of PuduFM 1.0, the robot can continuously optimize its manipulation strategies based on environmental conditions and task objectives, enabling greater adaptability in complex industrial settings.
360° Environmental Awareness: Adapting to Dynamic Industrial Environments
To operate reliably in complex factory settings, PUDU D7 is equipped with dual front-and-rear LiDAR systems and a comprehensive perception system.
The robot continuously captures surrounding spatial information, accurately identifying obstacles, route changes, and environmental conditions in real time. By dynamically analyzing changing operational conditions, PUDU D7 can proactively avoid risks and navigate confidently through highly dynamic, mixed-operation industrial environments. This significantly improves both mobility safety and operational stability.
As a result, manufacturers can deploy the robot with minimal modifications to existing facilities, reducing implementation complexity and accelerating adoption.
Autonomous Battery Swapping: Enabling 24/7 Operations
To meet the demands of around-the-clock industrial operations, PUDU D7 supports fully autonomous battery swapping.
The robot can independently remove, replace, and recharge batteries without human intervention, minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous productivity. This self-sustaining power management system enables 24/7 operation while improving equipment utilization and overall operational efficiency.
Industrial Design Reimagined: A New Aesthetic for Intelligent Machines
Beyond its technological advancements, PUDU D7 introduces a refined industrial design that balances functionality, reliability, and visual appeal.
The robot adopts a design language that combines robust industrial form factors with softer contours, creating a visual identity that conveys both strength and approachability.
The head design draws inspiration from industrial safety helmets, enhanced by gradient diamond-pattern textures that reinforce safety recognition while conveying a futuristic visual identity. The leg architecture utilizes open-frame structures to reduce visual bulk and create a lighter, more agile appearance. Meanwhile, the chassis incorporates design cues inspired by off-road vehicles, emphasizing its mobility and adaptability across challenging terrain.
Finished in dark matte materials with distinctive high-visibility signal-light elements, PUDU D7 projects a professional, dependable, and technologically advanced industrial presence through its clean and streamlined silhouette.
From Automation Tool to Industrial Intelligent Agent
As industrial intelligence continues to evolve, robots are no longer limited to executing predefined workflows.
PUDU D7 represents a new generation of embodied AI robots capable of continuously learning, evolving, and truly understanding industrial environments.
Through the integration of PuduFM 1.0, a real-world data loop, and deep industrial deployment, Pudu Robotics is accelerating the transition from traditional automation to intelligent industrial agents.
Looking ahead, the company is further exploring the future of embodied AI through PuduAgent, a general-purpose embodied agent architecture.
If PuduFM 1.0 enables robots to understand how to perform tasks, PuduAgent serves as the robot's cognitive task engine. It can understand user objectives, autonomously decompose complex workflows, dynamically orchestrate navigation, manipulation, and perception capabilities, and coordinate multiple robots to complete long-horizon tasks spanning different locations and processes.
This vision extends robotics beyond isolated task execution toward intelligent systems capable of planning, decision-making, and autonomous collaboration.
For Pudu Robotics, the value of embodied intelligence lies not only in automating repetitive work, but also in enabling robots to integrate seamlessly into real-world production and everyday life.
"Born Intelligent. Transforming Industries. Reimagining Life." reflects Pudu Robotics' long-term vision: creating robots that continuously understand their environments, learn from experience, evolve collaboratively, and generate greater value across industrial, commercial, and everyday applications.
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 achieved full-stack proprietary R&D in core technologies, including navigation algorithms, multi-robot scheduling, swarm control, motion controllers, and integrated joint modules.
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.
To date, Pudu Robotics has shipped over 130,000 units globally, with a presence in more than 85 countries and regions.
SHENZHEN, China, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pudu Robotics, a global leader in service robotics, today announced the launch of its new PUDU D7, its next-generation industrial semi-humanoid robot designed for manufacturing and industrial environments.
PUDU D7 integrates industrial-grade hardware with embodied AI to tackle complex operational challenges across factory workflows. Built on PuduFM 1.0, Pudu Robotics' embodied intelligence foundation model, the robot integrates scenario-driven intelligence, large-model reasoning, and practical business value to help industrial automation evolve toward intelligent, continuously learning systems.
Unlike conventional industrial robots that rely on predefined programs and fixed workflows, PUDU D7 can understand tasks, learn from experience, and continuously optimize its behavior in real-world environments. This marks a significant shift from simply executing tasks to understanding them.
"An industrial-grade evolvable semi-humanoid robot—born from real-world scenarios and evolved through foundation models." This philosophy defines PUDU D7 and reflects Pudu Robotics' vision for the future of industrial robotics in the era of embodied intelligence.
Comprehensive Data Collection: Building the Foundation for Industrial Embodied Intelligence
The complexity of industrial environments demands robots capable of continuous learning and ongoing evolution.
To support this, PUDU D7 features an integrated end-to-end data collection architecture capable of rapidly capturing and consolidating operational data across diverse industrial workflows. With low-latency transmission and highly synchronized data processing, the system provides a robust foundation for model training and continuous improvement.
Powered by this large-scale real-world data loop, PuduFM 1.0 continuously learns operational procedures, spatial relationships, and manufacturing processes from industrial environments, steadily improving decision-making and task adaptability over time.
Unlike traditional robots whose capabilities remain fixed after deployment, PUDU D7 continuously evolves through every navigation, manipulation, interaction, and operational task it performs.
Dual-Arm Dexterity: Enhancing Warehouse and Material Handling Efficiency
In inventory storage and warehouse environments, PUDU D7 can autonomously perform high-frequency tasks such as material handling, shelf picking, inventory replenishment, and intralogistics transportation.
The robot supports a payload capacity of up to 14 kg (30.9 lbs) and can operate at heights of up to 2 meters (6.6 ft), enabling efficient interaction with high-rack storage systems.
Leveraging precision force-control technology in its dual-arm system, PUDU D7 can handle heavy objects with exceptional care, minimizing the risk of product damage during transport and manipulation. PUDU D7 can also autonomously push carts and transport materials across facilities, helping improve warehouse productivity and operational efficiency.
Powered by PuduFM 1.0, PUDU D7 moves beyond the traditional separation between navigation and manipulation. Instead, it integrates mobility, approach planning, grasping, and dynamic adjustment into a unified action framework, enabling seamless coordination between movement and operation.
For manufacturers, this enables the automation of more complex, multi-step tasks while reducing manual intervention and system integration costs.
Tactile Intelligence: Millimeter-Level Precision Control
For high-precision industrial applications such as dispensing, assembly, and fine manipulation, PUDU D7 is equipped with advanced tactile sensors capable of detecting contact force and pressure feedback in real time.
The system delivers millimeter-level force-control accuracy, dynamically adjusting applied force based on material properties and task requirements. Whether performing delicate grasping, controlled pressing, or precision force application, PUDU D7 maintains stable and consistent operation while minimizing the risk of component damage.
Combined with the physical-world understanding capabilities of PuduFM 1.0, the robot can continuously optimize its manipulation strategies based on environmental conditions and task objectives, enabling greater adaptability in complex industrial settings.
360° Environmental Awareness: Adapting to Dynamic Industrial Environments
To operate reliably in complex factory settings, PUDU D7 is equipped with dual front-and-rear LiDAR systems and a comprehensive perception system.
The robot continuously captures surrounding spatial information, accurately identifying obstacles, route changes, and environmental conditions in real time. By dynamically analyzing changing operational conditions, PUDU D7 can proactively avoid risks and navigate confidently through highly dynamic, mixed-operation industrial environments. This significantly improves both mobility safety and operational stability.
As a result, manufacturers can deploy the robot with minimal modifications to existing facilities, reducing implementation complexity and accelerating adoption.
Autonomous Battery Swapping: Enabling 24/7 Operations
To meet the demands of around-the-clock industrial operations, PUDU D7 supports fully autonomous battery swapping.
The robot can independently remove, replace, and recharge batteries without human intervention, minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous productivity. This self-sustaining power management system enables 24/7 operation while improving equipment utilization and overall operational efficiency.
Industrial Design Reimagined: A New Aesthetic for Intelligent Machines
Beyond its technological advancements, PUDU D7 introduces a refined industrial design that balances functionality, reliability, and visual appeal.
The robot adopts a design language that combines robust industrial form factors with softer contours, creating a visual identity that conveys both strength and approachability.
The head design draws inspiration from industrial safety helmets, enhanced by gradient diamond-pattern textures that reinforce safety recognition while conveying a futuristic visual identity. The leg architecture utilizes open-frame structures to reduce visual bulk and create a lighter, more agile appearance. Meanwhile, the chassis incorporates design cues inspired by off-road vehicles, emphasizing its mobility and adaptability across challenging terrain.
Finished in dark matte materials with distinctive high-visibility signal-light elements, PUDU D7 projects a professional, dependable, and technologically advanced industrial presence through its clean and streamlined silhouette.
From Automation Tool to Industrial Intelligent Agent
As industrial intelligence continues to evolve, robots are no longer limited to executing predefined workflows.
PUDU D7 represents a new generation of embodied AI robots capable of continuously learning, evolving, and truly understanding industrial environments.
Through the integration of PuduFM 1.0, a real-world data loop, and deep industrial deployment, Pudu Robotics is accelerating the transition from traditional automation to intelligent industrial agents.
Looking ahead, the company is further exploring the future of embodied AI through PuduAgent, a general-purpose embodied agent architecture.
If PuduFM 1.0 enables robots to understand how to perform tasks, PuduAgent serves as the robot's cognitive task engine. It can understand user objectives, autonomously decompose complex workflows, dynamically orchestrate navigation, manipulation, and perception capabilities, and coordinate multiple robots to complete long-horizon tasks spanning different locations and processes.
This vision extends robotics beyond isolated task execution toward intelligent systems capable of planning, decision-making, and autonomous collaboration.
For Pudu Robotics, the value of embodied intelligence lies not only in automating repetitive work, but also in enabling robots to integrate seamlessly into real-world production and everyday life.
"Born Intelligent. Transforming Industries. Reimagining Life." reflects Pudu Robotics' long-term vision: creating robots that continuously understand their environments, learn from experience, evolve collaboratively, and generate greater value across industrial, commercial, and everyday applications.
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 achieved full-stack proprietary R&D in core technologies, including navigation algorithms, multi-robot scheduling, swarm control, motion controllers, and integrated joint modules.
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.
To date, Pudu Robotics has shipped over 130,000 units globally, with a presence in more than 85 countries and regions.
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PUDU Embodied Unveils the Next-Generation PUDU D7: Opening a New Chapter for Industrial Semi-Humanoid Robotics
