TIAGo is PAL Robotics' mobile manipulator robot — and, importantly, not a bipedal humanoid. TIAGo combines a wheeled mobile base, a lifting torso, a pan-tilt head, and a single (or, in the TIAGo++ version, dual) robotic arm. It is one of the most widely used service-and-research robots in the world, designed to assist people in domestic, healthcare, and industrial environments. PAL has built service robots since 2004, and TIAGo distills that experience into a compact, customizable, ROS-based platform.
Price Range
TIAGo is genuinely sold as a product, primarily to research institutions and increasingly for service applications. PAL Robotics offers it as a fully customizable platform (hardware and software options selected per order); pricing is quote-based and configuration-dependent.
| Basis | Figure |
|---|---|
| Confirmed list price | Not publicly published; quote-based, fully configurable |
| Market | Research, healthcare, service, light industry |
| Variants | TIAGo (single-arm); TIAGo++ (dual-arm); TIAGo Base (mobile base); TIAGo Pro (newer) |
Full Specifications
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Wheeled mobile manipulator (not bipedal) |
| Degrees of freedom | ~12 in the base configuration (1 torso lift, 7-DOF arm, 2 mobile base, 2 head) |
| Arm | 7-DOF arm; lifts ~3 kg fully outstretched; TIAGo++ dual arms reach floor to ~1.75 m |
| Base | Mobile wheeled base; navigation, mapping, and localization in unstructured indoor environments |
| End effectors | Interchangeable plug-and-play end effectors; arm can learn by demonstration |
| Sensing | Force-torque wrist sensor, configurable laser and sonar, IMU, RGB-D camera, microphone arrays; optional touchscreen and fingertip sensors |
| Software | Fully ROS-enabled (ROS 2 on newer versions); open-source simulation and tutorials available |
| Optional compute | NVIDIA Jetson for machine-learning and deep-learning development |
| Features | Multi-language text-to-speech, facial and speech recognition; telepresence and teleoperation |
Model Breakdown
TIAGo is a family: the single-arm TIAGo, the dual-arm TIAGo++, the TIAGo Base (mobile base for intralogistics), and the newer TIAGo Pro (a more advanced wheeled humanoid mobile manipulator with torque-controlled arms and expressive displays). All are wheeled mobile manipulators — chosen deliberately by PAL as more practical and easier to use than a bipedal robot for homes and service settings.
Buyer's Guide: What to Know
TIAGo is a mobile manipulator, not a walking humanoid. Its wheeled base is a deliberate practicality choice — for service and research tasks, wheels are simpler and more reliable than legs.
Full customization is the core value. You select hardware and software options to get exactly the platform your application needs.
It is deeply ROS-integrated. ROS/ROS 2 support, open-source simulation, and tutorials make TIAGo a strong choice for research and development.
Pick the right family member. Single-arm TIAGo for general tasks, TIAGo++ for bimanual work, TIAGo Pro for the most advanced configuration, TIAGo Base for pure logistics.
TIAGo vs Similar Robots
- TIAGo vs PAL REEM-C / TALOS: TIAGo is a wheeled mobile manipulator; REEM-C and TALOS are bipedal humanoids.
- TIAGo vs Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1: Both are wheeled mobile manipulators; the RB-Y1 is dual-arm and humanoid-form, TIAGo is highly modular and research-standard.
- TIAGo vs RobotEra Q5: Both are wheeled service-and-research robots; TIAGo is the long-established European research standard.
Source: PAL Robotics
