PAL Robotics
PAL Robotics builds humanoids, mobile manipulators, mobile bases and inventory robots for research, healthcare, logistics and public environments. Its robot line includes TIAGo, TALOS, ARI, StockBot and KANGAROO platforms.
Market context
One of the more established robotics companies in Europe with a track record of deploying humanoid and service robots in research and commercial environments. TALOS
Facts
- Website: https://pal-robotics.com
- HQ: Barcelona, Spain
- Founded: 2004
- Segment: humanoid robotics
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2026-02-24 - Grant - $216K - PAL Robotics Receives €200K for SAFE-LY Project - source: pal-robotics.com
European humanoid and service robotics platforms for research and applied environments
PAL Robotics develops humanoid and service robots from Barcelona. Its public portfolio includes TIAGo, REEM-C and related platforms for research, healthcare, retail, industrial and service robotics environments.
- Target environment: Research labs, healthcare-adjacent settings, retail environments, industrial sites, education programs and service robotics deployments.
- Deployment model: Robot platform model supported by robot sales, engineering services, software support, ad-hoc projects and customer support.
- Customer context: Universities, research labs, healthcare-adjacent organizations, retail users, industrial customers and service robotics developers.
- Workflow context: Mobile manipulation, bipedal humanoid research, human-robot interaction, navigation, perception, service assistance and applied robotics experimentation.
- Commercial maturity: PAL has more than 20 years of operating history, a public product portfolio and robots deployed across many countries. Its strongest maturity is in research and service robotics platforms rather tha…
- Market position: Long-running European service and humanoid robotics builder with a strong research-platform base.
- Adoption constraints: Scaling beyond research markets, service-robot economics, safety certification, support burden, hardware refresh cycles and competition from lower-cost platforms.
- Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, service robotics, mobile manipulation, research platforms, HRI and European robotics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-05-12 - Research Publication - Morphologically Equivariant Flow Matching for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation - Mobile manipulation requires coordinated control of high-dimensional, bimanual robots. Imitation learning methods have been broadly used to solve these robotic tasks, yet typically ignore the bilateral morphological symmetry inherent in su… The work is explic…
- 2026-04-14 - Research Publication - Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation using Offline Reinforcement Learning on Sub-optimal Controllers - Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) of articulated objects, such as opening doors, drawers, and cupboards, demands simultaneous, whole-body coordination between a robot's base and arms. Classical whole-body controllers (WBCs) can solve such problem… The work is explic…
- 2026-02-24 - Funding - PAL Robotics Receives €200K for SAFE-LY Project - • PAL Robotics received €200,000 in funding for the SAFE-LY project, which began on January 1, 2023. • The project involves deploying the TIAGo robot to enhance patient safety in healthcare settings by detecting falls and misplaced objects. • Two partners are…
- 2026-02-23 - Market Signal - PAL Robotics Deploys TIAGo Robot to VivirenCasaUMA Project in Málaga - TIAGo will reside in the Living Lab for two months. The project team will explore the robot's capabilities in a 'Living at Home' environment. The deployment aims to assess TIAGo's potential in practical research settings.
- 2026-01-06 - Research Publication - LOST-3DSG: Lightweight Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs with Semantic Tracking in Dynamic Environments - Tracking objects that move within dynamic environments is a core challenge in robotics. Recent research has advanced this topic significantly; however, many existing approaches remain inefficient due to their reliance on heavy foundation m… The work is explic…
- 2026-01-06 - Research Publication - HEXAR: a Hierarchical Explainability Architecture for Robots - As robotic systems become increasingly complex, the need for explainable decision-making becomes critical. Existing explainability approaches in robotics typically either focus on individual modules, which can be difficult to query from th… The work is explic…
- 2025-11-18 - Research Publication - Searching in Space and Time: Unified Memory-Action Loops for Open-World Object Retrieval - Service robots must retrieve objects in dynamic, open-world settings where requests may reference attributes ("the red mug"), spatial context ("the mug on the table"), or past states ("the mug that was here yesterday"). Existing approaches… The work is explic…
- 2025-10-16 - Partnership - PAL Robotics and NVIDIA collaborate on humanoid AI training stack - PAL Robotics uses NVIDIA GPU computing to support robot learning, perception and decision-making workloads. The company described Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab as part of its reinforcement-learning and simulation workflow for humanoid platforms.
- 2025-10-11 - Research Publication - TIAGo++ Omni Isaac Sim paper releases calibrated mecanum-drive model - The paper introduces a public Isaac Sim integration for PAL Robotics TIAGo++ Omni, including a model calibrated against real robot behavior. It compares a physically detailed mecanum-wheel model with a lightweight velocity-based model for learning-driven simu…
- 2025-09-26 - Research Publication - An Ontology for Unified Modeling of Tasks, Actions, Environments, and Capabilities in Personal Service Robotics - Personal service robots are increasingly used in domestic settings to assist older adults and people requiring support. Effective operation involves not only physical interaction but also the ability to interpret dynamic environments, unde… The work is explic…
- 2025-09-01 - Deployment - PAL Robotics deploys TIAGo Pro for CO-HAND textile plant pilot - The project uses TIAGo Pro with AI perception, a custom gripper, operator collaboration tools and ROS4HRI behaviors. PAL Robotics supports validation through real-world trials at CETRIKO’s plant and usability studies. The deployment places PAL Robotics's tech…
- 2025-08-19 - Research Publication - Deep Biomechanically-Guided Interpolation for Keypoint-Based Brain Shift Registration - Accurate compensation of brain shift is critical for maintaining the reliability of neuronavigation during neurosurgery. While keypoint-based registration methods offer robustness to large deformations and topological changes, they typical… The work is explic…
- 2025-08-04 - Research Publication - Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring - The paper studies TIAGo audio capability for medical-monitoring assistance. The title names the TIAGo robot directly, making the mobile-manipulator binding explicit. The work adds human-robot-interaction context for TIAGo research use.
- 2025-06-18 - Research Publication - Context Matters! Relaxing Goals with LLMs for Feasible 3D Scene Planning - Embodied agents need to plan and act reliably in real and complex 3D environments. Classical planning (e. The work is explicitly tied to TIAGo, making the product binding high confidence. The artifact adds external research coverage for TIAGo beyond company-a…
- 2025-03-11 - Research Publication - Investigating the Effectiveness of a Socratic Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning Method for Task Planning in Robotics, A Case Study - Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capability in reasoning with natural language. Coupled with this development is the emergence of embodied AI in robotics. The work is explicitly tied to TIAGo, making the product binding high confid…
- 2024-12-20 - Research Publication - From Vocal Instructions to Household Tasks: The Inria TIAGo++ in the euROBIN Service Robots Coopetition - This paper describes the Inria team's integrated robotics system used in the 1st euROBIN coopetition, during which service robots performed voice-activated household tasks in a kitchen setting. The team developed a modified TIAGo++ platfor… The work is explic…
- 2024-12-11 - Research Publication - ASDnB: Merging Face with Body Cues For Robust Active Speaker Detection - State-of-the-art Active Speaker Detection (ASD) approaches mainly use audio and facial features as input. However, the main hypothesis in this paper is that body dynamics is also highly correlated to "speaking" (and "listening") actions an… The work is explic…
- 2024-12-06 - Research Publication - BIAS: A Body-based Interpretable Active Speaker Approach - State-of-the-art Active Speaker Detection (ASD) approaches heavily rely on audio and facial features to perform, which is not a sustainable approach in wild scenarios. Although these methods achieve good results in the standard AVA-ActiveS… The work is explic…
- 2024-11-24 - Demonstration - PAL Robotics' TALOS wins Obstacle Challenge at HUMANOIDS 2024 - • PAL Robotics' humanoid robot TALOS participated in the Obstacle Challenge at HUMANOIDS 2024 in Nancy, France. • TALOS successfully navigated various obstacles, including stairs and slopes, demonstrating its advanced mobility capabilities. • The robot's perf…
- 2024-10-28 - Award - PAL Robotics CEO Francesco Ferro Named CEO of the Year in Robotics - Francesco Ferro, CEO of PAL Robotics, was named CEO of the Year in Robotics by European CEO. Under Ferro's leadership, PAL Robotics has achieved significant innovations such as torque control, enabling robots to safely interact with humans. Ferro serves on th…
- 2024-10-08 - Research Publication - UNCOM: Zero-shot Context-Aware Command Understanding for Tabletop Scenarios - This paper presents UNCOM, a novel hybrid framework for interpreting natural human commands in tabletop scenarios. The system integrates multiple sources of information -- speech, gestures, and scene context -- to extract structured, actio… The work is explic…
- 2024-10-01 - Demonstration - PAL Robotics Demonstrates TIAGo Robot at BIMU2024 - PAL Robotics showcased the TIAGo robot to an industrial audience at BIMU2024. The event provided opportunities to build valuable connections and share company insights. PAL Robotics expressed anticipation for future events following the demonstration.
- 2024-08-30 - Research Publication - EMPOWER: Embodied Multi-role Open-vocabulary Planning with Online Grounding and Execution - Task planning for robots in real-life settings presents significant challenges. These challenges stem from three primary issues: the difficulty in identifying grounded sequences of steps to achieve a goal; the lack of a standardized mappin… The work is explic…
- 2024-07-31 - Research Publication - Rico: extended TIAGo robot towards up-to-date social and assistive robot usage scenarios - Social and assistive robotics have vastly increased in popularity in recent years. Due to the wide range of usage, robots executing such tasks must be highly reliable and possess enough functions to satisfy multiple scenarios. The work is explicitly tied to T…
Team
- Francesco Ferro - Chief Executive Officer - Central leader behind PAL Robotics' long-running service, humanoid and research-platform robotics portfolio.
Supply chain relationships
- Advanced Navigation - Orientus Imu/ahrs - Advanced Navigation Orientus IMU/AHRS supports PAL Robotics TALOS and Kangaroo balance, uneven-terrain walking and jumping work.
Customers and deployments
- Deployed Robot Count - 2 robots - 2025-11-24 - Decathlon - retail inventory automation - PAL Robotics deployed two StockBot inventory robots in Decathlon stores in Portugal. - source posture: Third Party Reported
- Named Pilot Site - TIAGo Pro textile-plant pilot - 2025-09-01 - CO-HAND consortium - textile manufacturing pilot - PAL Robotics deployed TIAGo Pro in the CO-HAND project for a textile-plant pilot focused on collaborativ…
- Named Trial Site Count - 1 healthcare trial site - 2025-07-15 - BSABadalona - healthcare service robotics - PAL Robotics integrated a TIAGo Omni Base robot into BSABadalona healthcare workflows for tests including teleo…
- Named Live Site Count - 1 office receptionist deployment - 2024-05-01 - Ayesa - office reception - PAL Robotics implemented its ARI social robot as a receptionist at Ayesa’s Barcelona offices for visitor-facing assistan…
- Hospital Site Count - 2 hospital sites - 2020-04-15 - Hospital Municipal of Badalona / Hospital Clinic Barcelona - hospital logistics - PAL Robotics deployed TIAGo Delivery and TIAGo Conveyor robots at Hospital Municipa…
- Named Research Humanoid Site - 1 TALOS humanoid at Waterloo RoboHub - 2018-11-07 - University of Waterloo RoboHub - research humanoid platform - PAL Robotics TALOS joined the University of Waterloo RoboHub as an experim…
Articles
- 2023-05-19 - PAL Robotics brings TIAGo Pro to mobile manipulation research - PAL Robotics introduced TIAGo Pro as the next step in its TIAGo mobile-manipulation line, adding torque-controlled arms, upgraded electronics…
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