Commercial robotHumanoid

PAL Robotics Talos

Talos robot profile with source-backed specifications.

PAL Robotics

Data & sources

Official
1
Unofficial research
1

Key specifications

Height
1.75 m
Weight
95 kg
Single-arm payload
6 kg (arm stretched)
Runtime
1.5 h walking
PAL Robotics Talos hero image

Specifications

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Physical specifications

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Height

1.75 m

Weight

95 kg

Actuation

4
Configurable head and gripper

configurable head/gripper

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

Battery and power

1
Runtime

1.5 h walking

Mobility

3
Locomotion type

walking biped

Dynamic walking

designed for dynamic walking

Multi contact motion

multi-contact motion

Manipulation

1
Single-arm payload

6 kg (arm stretched)

Sensors

3
Joint torque sensor feedback

full torque-sensor feedback in joints except head, wrists and grippers

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

Compute

7
Ethercat control loop frequency

up to 5 kHz

2 kHz, and up to 5 kHz

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.

Other

2
Ethercat network

EtherCAT Network

Safety control condition

additional estimator out of the real-time ros_control loop