# PAL TALOS

Manufacturer: [PAL Robotics](/companies/pal-robotics)  
Category: humanoid

## Summary

TALOS is a research humanoid from PAL Robotics, a Spanish company and one of the few European humanoid makers, used by European research consortia and labs. It is a research-tools platform, not a consumer product; the editorial position is honest-absence on consumer pricing.

## Top line

> PAL TALOS is announced, no delivery date, no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.

## Readiness

- **Availability** (announced-no-date): Announced, no delivery date.
- **Price honesty** (no-price): No price points on file for PAL TALOS.
- **Capability honesty** (no-claims): No reviewed capability claims on file for PAL TALOS.
- **Real-world use** (research): Maturity: research. No verified deployments in the registry.
- **Safety record** (no-incidents): No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.

## What it claims to do

_No reviewed capability claims on file._

## Price

_No reviewed price points on file._

## Real-world use

_No verified deployments on file for PAL TALOS._

## Safety record

_No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative._

## Privacy

_No privacy practices disclosed or on file for PAL TALOS._

## Specs

- **control**: torque_controlled
- **drive_mode**: bipedal
- **application**: research_manipulation

## What's under the hood

_No brain on file for PAL TALOS._

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the PAL TALOS actually available for purchase?

Announced but not yet available.

_Source: [PAL Robotics brings TIAGo Pro and Kangaroo to CoRL/Humanoids 2025 Asia (2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/news/robots-on-the-move-pal-robotics-brings-tiago-pro-and-kangaroo-to-asia/)._

### What does the PAL TALOS cost?

Not announced.

### Where is the PAL TALOS being used?

No verified field deployments on record.

### Is the PAL TALOS safe?

No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.

### How does the PAL TALOS handle privacy?

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for PAL TALOS.

### Who makes the PAL TALOS?

PAL TALOS is made by PAL Robotics, based in Barcelona, Spain.

_Source: [PAL Robotics brings TIAGo Pro and Kangaroo to CoRL/Humanoids 2025 Asia (2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/news/robots-on-the-move-pal-robotics-brings-tiago-pro-and-kangaroo-to-asia/)._

## Manufacturer

- [PAL Robotics (https://pal-robotics.com/news/robots-on-the-move-pal-robotics-brings-tiago-pro-and-kangaroo-to-asia/)](https://pal-robotics.com/news/robots-on-the-move-pal-robotics-brings-tiago-pro-and-kangaroo-to-asia/)

## Compared to

- [Walker S2](/consumer/models/ubtech-walker-s2)
- [AgiBot Yuanzheng A2](/consumer/models/agibot-yuanzheng-a2)
- [Phoenix](/consumer/models/sanctuary-phoenix)

## Sources

1. [PAL Robotics — TALOS](https://pal-robotics.com/robots/talos/) · 2026-01-01
2. [Curated humanoid list — TALOS](https://github.com/jk4e/list-ai-humanoid-robots) · 2026-01-01
3. [PAL Robotics TALOS product page (1.75m, 32-DOF, torque-controlled, EtherCAT)](https://pal-robotics.com/robot/talos/)
4. [TALOS humanoid now available from PAL Robotics (Pyrene first unit, ~1M euro)](https://spectrum.ieee.org/talos-humanoid-now-available-from-pal-robotics)
5. [TALOS: a new humanoid research platform for industrial applications (Humanoids 2017 paper)](https://hal.science/hal-01485519v1/file/iros-talos.pdf)
6. [Pyrene: a new humanoid robot (first TALOS at LAAS-CNRS)](https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/pyrene-a-new-humanoid-robot)
7. [Position vs torque whole-body control on TALOS (research benchmarking)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9659380/)
8. [TALOS (IEEE Robots Guide profile)](https://robotsguide.com/robots/talos)
9. [PAL Robotics brings TIAGo Pro and Kangaroo to CoRL/Humanoids 2025 Asia (2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/news/robots-on-the-move-pal-robotics-brings-tiago-pro-and-kangaroo-to-asia/)
10. [Kangaroo robot goes on sale; TU Wien first customer (2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/blog/kangaroo-robot-from-prototype-to-your-trusted-research-companion/)
11. [Kangaroo robot free-walking milestone (2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/blog/kangaroo-robot-free-walking-thanks-to-the-latest-developments-in-software-and-hardware/)
12. [PAL Robotics to demonstrate humanoid embodied AI at Automatica 2025 (2025)](https://www.robotics247.com/article/automatica-2025-pal-robotics-to-demonstrate-humanoid-embodied-ai)
13. [PAL Robotics launches TIAGo OMNI++ mobile manipulation robot (2025)](https://www.automatedwarehouseonline.com/pal-robotics-launches-tiago-omni-mobile-manipulation-robot/)
14. [PAL Robotics TIAGo++ ready for two-armed tasks](https://www.therobotreport.com/tiago-robot-pal-robotics-ready-two-armed-tasks/)
15. [PAL Robotics Kangaroo humanoid squats with a heavy box (2025)](https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/pal-robotics-kangaroo-humanoid)
16. [How PAL Robotics powers EU research projects (ADRF 2025)](https://pal-robotics.com/blog/how-pal-robotics-powers-eu-research-projects-adrf-2025/)
17. [PAL Robotics Kangaroo navigation case study (Orientus) (2025)](https://www.advancednavigation.com/case-studies/advancing-humanoid-robots-pal-robotics-strides-forward-with-orientus/)
18. [PAL Robotics TIAGo Pro mobile manipulator (2025)](https://www.automatedwarehouseonline.com/pal-robotics-tiago-pro-mobile-manipulator/)

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