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ARI
PAL Robotics
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- Height
- 165 cm
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ARI
PAL RoboticsARI is a social humanoid robot developed by PAL Robotics (Barcelona, Spain), standing 165 cm tall and weighing approximately 50–60 kg, with a differential-drive wheeled base, 20 DOF, and dual arms for gesturing and light manipulation. It is designed for human-robot interaction in hospitals, retail, research labs, and information kiosk roles, featuring face recognition, 3D skeleton tracking, voice activity detection, RFID-capable navigation, and support for 30+ languages. The robot has been commercially available since approximately 2018–2019 and was showcased with upgrades at CES 2026. Several research groups have deployed ARI or built frameworks on top of it (PERCY, ARIS, agricultural monitoring), demonstrating its role as a research and service platform. Independent sources characterize its autonomy as 'semi-autonomous,' consistent with a robot that performs its social/navigation tasks on its own but within a supervised or configured operational context.
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Specification
- height
- 165 cm
- weight
- 50–60 kg (conflicting: 50 kg per HumanoidHub, 60 kg per OriginOfBots)
- degrees_of_freedom
- 20 DOF total; 5 DOF per arm
- arm_payload
- 0.5 kg per arm (light manipulation and gesturing)
- max_speed
- 1.5 m/s on flat surfaces
- battery_runtime
- 8–12 hours
Price
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Evidence-graded claims from the PAL Robotics deep report
PAL Robotics is unveiling a new robotic arm platform for advanced AI-driven manipulation, to be fully revealed at ICRA 2026.
The new arm platform announcement is corroborated by an independent robotics trade outlet, Robotics & Automation News [11], confirming the ICRA 2026 unveiling — though the platform's actual manipulation capabilities remain undemonstrated and unverified beyond the announcement.
from PAL Robotics deep report →PAL Robotics has 20+ years of operation and commercially deployed robots across retail, logistics, healthcare, and research sectors.
The company's founding date and multi-sector deployment are consistently corroborated across official sources, an independent trade news outlet [11], and Crunchbase [13], though the scale of deployments (unit counts, customer names) across sectors remains undisclosed and unverified.
from PAL Robotics deep report →
StockBot operates autonomously for up to 12 hours without human task intervention, performing RFID-based inventory scanning.
The 12-hour autonomous operation figure comes exclusively from PAL Robotics' own product page [4]; no independent customer report, third-party audit, or field test corroborates this specific duration or the nature of human oversight during operation.
from PAL Robotics deep report →ARI robots are deployed in real hospital environments for autonomous social assistance tasks (welcoming, check-in/out, appointment guidance) as part of the EU SPRING project.
PAL Robotics' own project page [14] describes the SPRING deployment with specific use-case detail, and the EU project framework lends institutional credibility, but no independent hospital operator report, patient outcome data, or third-party evaluation of the deployment's autonomy level has been identified.
from PAL Robotics deep report →TALOS humanoid features a unique leg architecture with all actuators in the base, closed kinematic chains, EtherCAT communication, and torque sensing for high payload capacity.
These hardware specifications are described in PAL Robotics' own blog post [7]; while EtherCAT and torque sensing are verifiable component-level claims, no independent robotics lab teardown, academic benchmark, or third-party hardware review in the dossier confirms the specific architectural claims or payload performance figures.
from PAL Robotics deep report →
StockBot achieves 99% accuracy and scans at 1,000 m²/h, with a cumulative total of 10 billion items scanned.
All three metrics (accuracy, throughput, cumulative items) are sourced solely from PAL Robotics' own product page [4], with no independent verification, customer validation, or third-party audit found in the dossier — making these unverified marketing claims despite their apparent specificity.
from PAL Robotics deep report →StockBot can be fully installed and operational within 1 day (mapping facility, inputting paths, scheduling tasks).
The 1-day setup claim appears only on PAL Robotics' own product page [4] with no independent integrator report, customer case study, or third-party deployment log to substantiate it — a notably aggressive timeline for a mobile robot requiring facility mapping and path configuration.
from PAL Robotics deep report →
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