PAL Robotics TIAGo Pro

What it's for

The TIAGo Pro is a mobile manipulator designed for research: two arms with 7 degrees of freedom (DOF) each, a torso with one degree of freedom and a 35 cm stroke, a head with two degrees, and an omnidirectional base on mecanum wheels that lets the robot drive sideways without turning. Together that adds up to 23 degrees of freedom, and the arms' reach extends 92 cm vertically and 236 cm horizontally, so they can reach both a countertop and a high shelf. The typical area of use is research on indoor mobile manipulation: learning to grasp, opening doors and drawers, carrying light objects, teleoperation. The manufacturer names the research community and industry as target groups. In industry, the place for such a robot is prototype stations and pilots, where a team checks whether a task can be automated before buying a dedicated cell. In higher education, TIAGo Pro suits universities running serious ROS 2 programs: the entire control architecture is based on ros2_controller with gravity compensation, which makes it easier to work with your own algorithms. Limits: the payload is 3 kg per arm without a gripper, so this is not a machine for moving cartons in a warehouse. Nor is it a product for a restaurant or hotel, since it lacks certified guest-service functions. Keep in mind, too, that the manufacturer does not give the weight, height or battery capacity, so if you are planning to use it on a floor without an elevator or in a narrow corridor, the dimensions have to be confirmed directly with PAL Robotics.

Who it's for

Yes: research teams at technical universities and institutes that build their own algorithms for grasping, motion planning and learning from demonstration and want to work in the ROS 2 ecosystem. Yes: R&D departments in companies that need a platform for prototyping manipulation tasks in a real environment, not just in simulation. Yes: labs with a grant budget for which hardware flexibility matters more than unit price.

No: small companies looking for a "plug and play" ready-made solution. TIAGo Pro is a platform for people who write code, not a product for a shop-floor operator. No: restaurants, hotels and shops; for guest service there are service robots such as Pudu BellaBot. No: high schools and robotics clubs with a budget of a few thousand zloty; educational robots, which we cover in the category “Educational robots”, make more sense for them. No: anyone who needs a price for a budget today, since the manufacturer does not publish one and the robot has no confirmed distributor in Poland. Beforehand it is worth reading how to make sense of a datasheet: “How to Read a Robot Datasheet”.

Deployments

TIAGo Pro has no institutions or companies assigned to it, and the model has no official distributor in Poland. We also have no documented deployments abroad for it, so we will not invent any. Mobile manipulators and service robots work in labs and at pilot stations across Europe, and PAL Robotics is one of the suppliers most often associated with such hardware for research communities. Polish universities and companies looking for a similar solution can compare several options from service robots and take a look at laboratories.

The classic PAL Robotics TIAGo is the same manufacturer and the same idea, but an older generation: a 7-DOF arm and a 3 kg payload. Choose it when you do not need the latest ROS 2 architecture and care about a fuller physical specification.

Reachy 2 is a mobile research torso with two 7-DOF arms, ROS 2 and LeRobot integration; it has a price of about 70,000 USD, a concrete figure that TIAGo Pro lacks. A good choice for teams working with imitation learning.

PAL Robotics ARI comes from the same stable, but it is an entirely different role: a social service robot for reception and human-robot interaction research, with speech in more than 20 languages.

Boston Dynamics Stretch is a single-purpose machine, unloading trucks, with a 22.7 kg payload. If your problem is logistics rather than research, it is in another league.

TIAGo Pro is a newer take on the TIAGo platform from Spain's PAL Robotics of Barcelona, a company founded in 2004 and known for ROS-based research robots: TIAGo, the humanoid PAL Robotics TALOS and the modular PAL Robotics Kangaroo. We have no launch date for the Pro and no timeline events, so we do not give one from memory. What we know from the product sheet concerns the differences from the predecessor: redesign around ROS 2, gravity compensation in the controller, two 7-DOF arms and greater reach. The datasheet available on the manufacturer's website carries the year 2026 in the file address, which suggests the model is part of the current lineup. More about the company itself: PAL Robotics.