PAL Robotics Talos
Talos robot profile with source-backed specifications.
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

Specifications
Physical specifications
2- 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

