Franka Mobile FR3 Duo

What it's for

The Franka Mobile FR3 Duo is a research prototype, not an off-the-shelf product, and that is where the story has to start. In its datasheet the manufacturer labels it a "Product Prototype": no IEC 60204 or ISO 13849 certification, not approved for production or safety-critical use. It is not on sale.

What is it? Two Franka Research 3 arms (3 kg payload each) on the holonomic TMR mobile platform, which moves in every direction at up to 1.5 m/s. Together that makes 18 degrees of freedom, 225 kg and a height of 146.1 cm. The brain is an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (64 GB) with ROS 2 Humble, and the sensors are two Sick NanoScan3 LiDARs and four RealSense D455 cameras around the body NVIDIA Jetson.

What is it for? Research into mobile manipulation, teleoperation and so-called embodied AI, meaning how a model learns to act in the physical world. In teleoperation, the recorded arm trajectories can be used to train models “VLA Models: How AI Controls Humanoid Robots in 2026”. That is the use the platform was built for universities laboratories.

The torque sensor in every arm joint, known from the FR3, lets you guide the arms by hand and teach them by demonstration.

Who it's for

Makes sense for: research teams at universities and institutes working on mobile robotics and machine learning, with a budget for non-commercial hardware and a wish for a ready-made dual-arm platform running ROS 2.

Less suited to: anyone looking for a robot to put to work in a business. The model is not for sale and is not certified. It is not an option for a school or a small workshop either schools; educational models are the better place to look “Educational Robots for Schools and Universities”. For Polish universities there is no confirmed distribution, and the only route is through the manufacturer Franka Robotics.

Deployments

It is a lab prototype that is not sold commercially. In practice, what is available in this category is the Franka FR3 itself and commercial mobile platforms that can be extended with an arm of your own mobile robots. Polish research teams should therefore ask the manufacturer about pilot programs rather than look for an offer in a shop.

The closest thing is the Franka Research 3, the research arm on its own, which you can buy separately (roughly USD 25,000-35,000, about PLN 96,900 (≈ EUR 22,200 at NBP rate 4.3641 of 21 October 2026) in our listing) and mount on a platform of your own. If you need a commercially available mobile base, look at the MiR600 (600 kg payload, up to 2 m/s) as a platform for your own arm.

Anyone after a mobile manipulator from an industrial family could consider the KUKA KMP 600P, a KUKA arm on a mobile platform. If your research covers humanoids rather than wheeled platforms, the Unitree G1 is much closer. The manufacturer compares the prototype with the PAL Robotics TIAGo++ and Fraunhofer's dual-arm robots; those models are not in our catalog, so we do not assess them.

Franka Robotics is a Munich-based German company founded in 2016, known for arms with torque sensors in the joints. The Mobile FR3 Duo is its prototype combining two Franka Research 3 arms with the Tactile Mobile Robot platform; the datasheet carries the designation R04245. We have no confirmed launch date and no events on record for this model, so we do not spin a generation history Franka Robotics.