
PAL Robotics Talos, a humanoid robot.
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Key specifications

| Height | 1.75 m |
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| Weight | 95 kg |
| Configurable head and gripper | configurable head/gripper |
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| Torque control | fully torque-controllable thanks to the torque sensor feedback in all joints |
| Torque control latency frequency | 2 kHz |
| Dynamical model urdf | URDF includes CoM position, mass and inertia tensors |
| Runtime | 1.5 h walking |
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| Locomotion type | walking biped |
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| Dynamic walking | designed for dynamic walking |
| Multi contact motion | multi-contact motion |
| Single-arm payload | 6 kg (arm stretched) |
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| Joint torque sensor feedback | full torque-sensor feedback in joints except head, wrists and grippers |
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| State estimation | state estimation from IMU+kinematics out-of-the-box |
| Available sensors ros control | encoders, IMU, torque sensors at a joint level, Force/Torque sensors on the wrists and ankles and temperature sensors of the robots |
| Ethercat control loop frequency | up to 5 kHz 2 kHz, and up to 5 kHz |
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| Ros development | fully developed in ROS |
| Operating system | Ubuntu LTS |
| Real time operating system | Real Time OS |
| Operating systems | Ubuntu LTS, Real Time OS |
| Open source simulation model | Simulation model available at: http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/TALOS |
| Whole body control | A controller written in the ros_control framework developed by PAL Robotics that allows the user to solve a problem consisting of tasks and constraints ordered by priority. |
| Ethercat network | EtherCAT Network |
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| Safety control condition | additional estimator out of the real-time ros_control loop |
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