TALOS product profile
TALOS is PAL Robotics full-size biped humanoid robot for advanced research. It provides torque-controlled joints, whole-body control, hands and onboard sensing for labs studying locomotion, manipulation, balance and human-scale robot behavior.
Facts
- Company: PAL Robotics
- Product type: Humanoid
- Status: commercial
- Website: https://pal-robotics.com/robots/talos/
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
TALOS is PAL Robotics full-size biped humanoid robot for advanced research. It provides torque-controlled joints, whole-body control, hands and onboard sensing for labs studying locomotion, manipulation, balance and human-scale robot behavior.
Overview
TALOS is PAL Robotics full-size biped humanoid robot for advanced research. It provides torque-controlled joints, whole-body control, hands and onboard sensing for labs studying locomotion, manipulation, balance and human-scale robot behavior.
Market context
TALOS is PAL Robotics' full-size humanoid research robot for bipedal locomotion, whole-body control and manipulation.
- Target environment: Robotics labs, humanoid research centres and controlled indoor testing environments.
- Workflow context: Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, balance, perception and humanoid software development.
- Deployment model: Research humanoid platform used by academic and industrial robotics teams.
- Commercial maturity: Established research humanoid platform from PAL Robotics.
- Adoption constraints: Requires robotics expertise, controlled lab conditions, safety procedures and advanced software development.
- Market position: High-end humanoid research robot for teams working on locomotion, control and manipulation.
- Adjacent products: Full-size humanoid platform for advanced research in walking, manipulation and whole-body control.
Workflow
Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, balance, perception and humanoid software development.
Capability
Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion, Force control
Deployment environment
Robotics labs, humanoid research centres and controlled indoor testing environments.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Researchers
- Workflow: Bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, manipulation, balance, perception and humanoid software development.
- Capability: Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion, Force control
- Deployment environment: Robotics labs, humanoid research centres and controlled indoor testing environments.
Specifications
- Height: 175 cm
- Weight: 95 kg
- Payload Capacity: 6 kg per arm with arm stretched
- Runtime: 1.5h walking / 3h stand-by
- Power System: Lithium-ion battery
- Sensors Summary: Force/torque sensors in both ankles and wrists, torque sensors in joints, and AHRS/IMU
- Tactile Sensing: Full torque sensor feedback in all joints except head, wrists, and grippers
- Compute Model: Two Intel Core i7 computers
- Control Interface: Wi-Fi, Ethernet, EtherCAT, and service port for tethered emergency button
- Software Stack: Ubuntu LTS, Linux RT Preempt, ROS, OROCOS, Gazebo simulation, URDF model, ros_control, and MoveIt
- Manipulation: Large workspace for dexterous bi-manipulation
- Battery Capacity Wh: 1080 Wh
Tags
- Peer Group: Humanoid research platform
- Capability: Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion, Force control
- Deployment Environment: Research lab
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Research platform
Timeline / Research
- 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.
- 2024-06-11 - Partnership - PAL Robotics integrates Advanced Navigation Orientus into humanoid robots - PAL Robotics partnered with Advanced Navigation to improve localization and navigation capabilities in humanoid depl…
- 2024-01-23 - Demonstration - PAL Robotics enhances TALOS robot's navigation and climbing capabilities - Enhances navigation capabilities for TALOS in unfamiliar environments.
- 2023-06-01 - Research Publication - Practical whole-body elasto-geometric calibration of a humanoid robot: Application to the TALOS robot - The paper applies whole-body elasto-geometric calibration methods to the TALOS…
- 2022-03-04 - Research Publication - Benchmarking Whole‐Body Controllers on the TALOS Humanoid Robot - The paper benchmarks whole-body controllers on the TALOS humanoid robot.
- 2022-03-04 - Research Publication - External Frontiers paper benchmarks whole-body controllers on PAL Robotics TALOS - The Frontiers in Robotics and AI paper evaluates whole-body controllers on the commercially availabl…
- 2018-11-07 - Deployment - PAL Robotics TALOS joins University of Waterloo RoboHub - The University of Waterloo described TALOS as the first platform of its kind in Canada.
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- 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…
Comparable Systems
- TORO (TOrque-controlled humanoid RObot) - DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Anthropomorphic Biped
- SA01 - ENGINEAI - Humanoid
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