TIAGo

Name: TIAGo
Rating: 3.6 (890 reviews)

Four mobile robots, each with a wheeled base, a torso that includes an accordion to extend it, white face with two camera eyes, and a single industrial arm which has a five finger hand on the end. The robots are bumping their hands together and posed looking at the camera. — Go team! Photo: PAL Robotics

TIAGo is a mobile service robot designed to work in indoor environments. It has an extendable torso and a manipulator arm to grab tools and objects. Its sensor suite allows it to perform a wide range of perception, manipulation, and navigation tasks.

Creator

PAL Robotics

Year

2016

Country

Spain 🇪🇸

Categories

Features

A rotating view a mobile robot on a wheeled base, with an accordion torso that goes up and down, a white face with two camera eyes, and a single industrial arm which has a five finger hand on the end. — See TIAGo's extendable torso. Photos: PAL Robotics

Did you know?

TIAGo stands for "take it and go."

A simple white humanoid with a black arm and five digit hand opened in front of its torso. — TIAGo's helping hand. Photo: PAL Robotics

Close-up of the robots simple face, which is oval shaped, and includes eyes with cameras inside, additional sensors, and the shape of a smiling mouth. — A happy robot. Photo: PAL Robotics

A robot always ready to help. Video: PAL Robotics

Specs

Overview: Arm is capable of lifting payloads of up to 3kg when fully stretched. Torso can lift. Pan-tilt head. Fully ROS enabled. Mapping and localization in unstructured indoor environments. Path planning with self-collision avoidance. Multi-language text-to-speech, facial and speech recognition. Telepresence and teleoperation with joystick or leap motion sensor. Pick and place, grasping, and dexterous manipulation. Interchangeable plug and play end-effectors. Arm learns by demonstation. Customizable hardware and software. Laptop tray.
Status: Ongoing
Year: 2016
Website: pal-robotics.com/robots/tiago
Height: 110 cm (145 cm | 57 in fully extended)
Weight: 70 kg
Speed: 3.6 km/h
Sensors: Force-torque sensor on wrist. Customizable laser and sonar sensors, inertial measurement unit (IMU), RGB-D camera, two microphone arrays. Touchscreen and fingertips sensors (optional).
Actuators: Nine brushless DC motors and eight brushed DC motors
Degrees of Freedom (DoF): 12 (Torso lift: 1 DoF; Arm 7 DoF; Mobile Base: 2 DoF; Head: 2 DoF. Optional end-effector can add additional DoF. Gripper: 2 DoF; Hey5 Hand: 19 DoF, 3 actuated)
Compute: Intel Core i7
Software: Ubuntu Linux OS, ROS LTS, OROCOS, Gazebo simulation and URDF model, ros_control, MoveIt!
Power: 36-V, 20-Ah battery: one battery, 4 to 5 hours of operation, or two batteries, 8 to 10 hours of operation
Cost: €29,000 to 59,000 (depending on specifications)