Facts

• Company: PAL Robotics
• Product type: Service Robot
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://pal-robotics.com/robots/ari/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

ARI is PAL Robotics social and collaborative robot for research and customer-facing applications. It supports speech, gestures, touchscreen content and external integrations for reception, guidance, entertainment and human-robot interaction work.

Overview

ARI is PAL Robotics social and collaborative robot for research and customer-facing applications. It supports speech, gestures, touchscreen content and external integrations for reception, guidance, entertainment and human-robot interaction work.

Market context

ARI is PAL Robotics social robot platform for human interaction, service tasks and research in public-facing environments.

• Target environment: Public interaction spaces, hospitality venues, research labs and commercial environments.
• Workflow context: Human-robot interaction, information delivery, guidance and service tasks in public-facing and research settings.
• Customer context: Hospitality operators, researchers and commercial venues deploying social service robots.
• Deployment model: Commercial product from a dedicated humanoid and service robotics company.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available social robot with research and commercial adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Designed for interaction rather than physical manipulation.
• Market position: A practical deployment-focused service platform from PAL Robotics, combining interaction capabilities in a stable form factor.
• Adjacent products: Cruzr S2, Cadebot L100, service robot platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Human-robot interaction, information delivery, guidance and service tasks in public-facing and research settings.

Capability

Service Robot

Deployment environment

Public interaction spaces, hospitality venues, research labs and commercial environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction, information delivery, guidance and service tasks in public-facing and research settings.
• Capability: Service Robot
• Deployment environment: Public interaction spaces, hospitality venues, research labs and commercial environments.

Specifications

• Height Cm: 165 cm
• Base Type: wheeled mobile base
• Arm Configuration: dual-arm system
• Locomotion Type: wheeled navigation
• Interface: display-based human interaction
• Sensors Summary: RGB-D cameras, LiDAR, interaction sensors
• Onboard Compute: PC-based system (ROS-enabled)

Tags

• Peer Group: Service robot platform
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Deployment Environment: Public interaction space
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 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.
• 2023-03-13 - Research Publication - Open-source Natural Language Processing on the PAL Robotics ARI Social Robot - The paper implements open-source natural-language processing on the PAL Robotics ARI social robot.
• 2021-04-15 - Research Publication - Robot to support older people to live independently - The paper describes how the PAL Robotics ARI robot participates in the European SHAPES project.
• 2019-12-18 - Product Launch - PAL Robotics Launches ARI Humanoid Robot for AI Services - ARI is a social humanoid robot designed to assist customers with dynamic information and run promotional campaigns.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• 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…

Comparable Systems

• Cruzr 1S - UBTECH Robotics - Service Robot
• ADAM - Richtech Robotics - Service Robot
• Aescape Massage System - Aescape - Service Robot
• Cadebot L100 - UBTECH Robotics - Service Robot
• Promobot V.4 - Promobot - Service Robot