TALOS Humanoid Now Available from PAL Robotics

If you are a roboticist and you want to work with humanoids but you don't want to build a robot from scratch, PAL Robotics would be happy to sell you one. The Spanish robot maker is introducing a new option that improves on its REEM humanoids: TALOS is a 32-degrees-of-freedom, 1.75-meter-tall, 100-kilogram robot designed for dynamic walking, heavy lifting, and (eventually) assisting humans with all of those tasks that we really don't want to be doing. PAL Robotics designed TALOS with the intention of having the robot "work on physically demanding and accurate tasks performed under hostile or uncomfortable industrial settings," according to PAL CEO Francesco Ferro. This means that the robot is not just a research platform--it's going to start out in research, as many robots do, but PAL hopes it can transition into doing useful tasks in the real world, a thing that humanoid robots in general aren't known for. Right out of the box (and we assume it's a pretty big box), TALOS can walk at 3 km/h, it can handle traveling over irregular surfaces, and its battery can keep it running for up to 3 hours (depending on what the robot is doing).