Robotics · 30 October 2026 · 4 min read
Pudu’s European headquarters is open. The release does not say who works in it
The company said on 30 October that offices, a showroom, a warehouse, training and repair are operating in Neuss. Across Europe it counts nearly 50 sales staff and nearly 40 technicians. It does not give the building’s headcount, its size or a revenue figure.
Pudu Robotics said on 30 October that its European headquarters in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, is operating. The release lists what is now under one roof: offices, a product showroom, warehousing, training, sales, after-sales service and repair. The building is meant to complement offices, partners and warehouses the company already has in the Netherlands and Germany, including a service centre in Germany and parts stock in both countries. An open building is a fact a customer can visit. It is not, by itself, a count of robots at work.
The staffing numbers are for the region, not for the new address. Across Europe, Pudu says it has nearly 50 sales people supporting partners and customer projects, and nearly 40 technical staff covering different markets. The release does not say how many of them sit in Neuss, what the building cost, or how many square metres it has. “Nearly” is the company’s word. A reader cannot turn it into a payroll.
The growth claim is also the company’s, and it is a rate, not a revenue. Pudu says the business now spans more than 20 European countries, and that over the past two years Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland each recorded annual business growth of more than 60 percent. It does not print the base those percentages grew from, or a euro figure for any of them. Business growth, in a private company’s release, can mean orders, units or sales. The sentence does not choose.
The customers are named, which is more checkable than the percentages. The release lists EDEKA, Albert Heijn, Carrefour, Marriott, Van der Valk, Pizza Hut, Intermarché, Denner and Paris Charles de Gaulle. The one deployment count is Denner, the Swiss supermarket group, which Pudu says has more than 200 of its CC1 cleaning robots. Bella Sun, vice president and general manager for Europe, said customers need local teams that can support a deployment after the sale, and that Neuss is there for that. Supporting a fleet is a different claim from selling one. The release does not say how many of those named customers are on a service contract, or what a repair in Neuss costs.