PAL Robotics · research humanoid
TIAGo
'Take It And Go', a wheeled mobile manipulator with a lifting torso, pan-tilt head and one arm, built as a ROS research platform. Included with a note: wheeled and single-armed, so only partly humanoid.
- Price
- —EUR 29,000-59,000 depending on configuration
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
TIAGo is on the market today.
Real-world use
Widely used in European research projects on assisted living and in robot competitions.
Timeline
- Released
- 2015
Maker
PAL RoboticsCompany · founded 2004 · Barcelona, SpainPrivately held; early humanoids were developed for Abu Dhabi-based Pal Technology (Gulf News, 2008); no venture rounds found
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for TIAGo and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention TIAGo gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Actuators & motors
- 9 brushless and 8 brushed DC motors; the 7-DoF arm comes in standard or series-elastic-actuator versions, the latter with torque-controllable joints and built-in brakes (PAL).
- Hands
- Interchangeable end effectors: parallel gripper, Robotiq 2F-85/2F-140, ePick suction or PAL SEA gripper, each optionally with force/torque sensing; optional Hey5 hand with 19 DoF, 3 of them actuated.
- Sensors & vision
- Base laser (Hokuyo or SICK TiM561), RGB-D camera, IMU, sonars, two microphone arrays and optional wrist force/torque sensor, touchscreen, thermal camera and Velodyne lidar (PAL).
- Compute
- Intel i5 (8 GB RAM, 250 GB SSD) standard or Intel i7 (16 GB, 500 GB SSD) upgrade; optional NVIDIA Jetson add-on for AI workloads (PAL).
- Battery & power
- 36 V, 20 Ah; 4-5 hours on one battery or 8-10 hours with a second (PAL).
- AI & software
- Ubuntu LTS with real-time OS, ROS, ros_control, OROCOS, Gazebo/URDF simulation and MoveIt!.
- Other details
- Height 110-145 cm via lifting torso; arm payload 3 kg without end effector.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)IntelHarmonic DriveHokuyoOrbbecVelodyneRobotiqATI Industrial AutomationSCHUNKSICKASUSUltraleapAndrea ElectronicsOptrisTDK InvenSense
Lineage
Every PAL Robotics humanoid in order.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedEUR 29,000-59,000 depending on configuration
- How to get one
- Maker's website
- Sold or delivered
- Sold to research labs and companies; unit count not published
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure |  TIAGoPAL Robotics |  Care-O-bot 4Fraunhofer IPA and Mojin RoboticsSame jobs: care, home · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  ALTER-EGOIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia (SoftBots Lab) and University of Pisa (E. Piaggio Research Center)Same job: care · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2015-02-04 | 2015-01-15 | 2017 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Pilot use |
| Height | — | 158 cm | 120 cm |
| Weight | — | 140 kg | — |
| Joints | — | 29 | — |
| Speed | — | 4 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | 5 kg | — |
| Battery | — | 5 h | — |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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