TORA-ONE

Touch is the defining feature of TORA-ONE, a humanoid from PaXini Tech in Shenzhen. The company, known for multidimensional tactile sensors, has covered the robot with 2,280 ITPU tactile units totalling 6,840 channels that distinguish 15 tactile modalities.

The robot rides on a wheeled chassis with laser SLAM; a folding waist lowers it from 1.86 m to 1.46 m. In total it offers 53 degrees of freedom, 21 in the body and 16 in each four-finger hand, of which 13 are active and 3 passive; the fingers are driven by coreless motors. Each arm lifts 5 kg with a reach of 96.5 cm and repeatability of ±0.5 mm.

Vision comes from five RGB cameras (three in the head, one per hand) and two RGBD cameras (head and chassis), supplemented by LiDAR. The chassis moves at 0.6 m/s, clears 2 cm obstacles and 7-degree slopes and turns at 0.4 rad/s. A 40 Ah battery lasts 8 hours according to the maker, with a 6-hour charge; the weight is not stated.

Intended uses are tactile research, data collection for the OmniSharing database and manipulation. PaXini points to its own store and an AliExpress flagship shop but gives no figure, so the price is on request. The sister model TORA-DOUBLE ONE is aimed more at industry and logistics.