ARI
Social humanoid for hospitality & research — indoor reception and companionship
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$34K - $36K
Available
How it stands in your space.
Side-by-side with a 180 cm adult, so you can feel the robot's footprint, height, and presence before it ever rolls in.
Compared with a 180 cm adult, ARI stands at approximately waist-to-chest height.
180 cm adult
Specifications
What this robot can do.
- Obstacle avoidance
- Multi-floor
- Elevator support
- Voice interaction
- Screen interaction
- Autonomous charging
- Fleet management
- Indoor
- Outdoor
Should you deploy it?
0–100 — higher is stronger, except where noted.
How operationally ready this robot is for production deployment today.
Confidence in the published ROI numbers — how likely the savings actually materialize.
Share of the human task this category can credibly offload.
Fit with your target environment — lighting, floor type, congestion.
Expected maintenance load and downtime risk. Lower is better.
Long-horizon strategic upside — where the platform points 3+ years out.
Buy if you operate a 50+ bed healthcare facility or 100+ room hotel needing telepresence-capable greeters and floor guides at 8–12 hour shifts. Skip if you need physical assistance, outdoor mobility, or ROI within 18 months — ARI is a research platform, not a labor-replacement tool. Integrator cost and pilot timelines add 6–12 months.
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When to deploy this.
- Hospital geriatric wards — multi-modal companion for elderly patients offering emotional support and activity engagement
- Large hotel (200+ rooms) front desk during peak hours — customer information and promotional campaigns on torso touchscreen
- Research projects in human-robot interaction (HRI) with ROS 2 / Python development teams
When to skip it.
- Cannot detect downward stairs; limited to flat floors with <5% slope
- 0.5 kg arm payload — no practical material handling or patient lifting
- Requires supervised operation in controlled environments; not autonomous in unstructured spaces
What's verified, what's estimated.
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Core capabilities (HRI, speech, gaze, touchscreen, expressive eyes) from official PAL product page and academic research papers. Hardware specs (battery, speed, payload, connectivity, computer options) from official datasheet (Feb 2025) and ROS wiki. Pricing estimated from 2024–2026 EU distributor listings (no official USD MSRP published). Deployment maturity inferred from ROS 2 SDK documentation and gerontology studies reporting real-world hospital/care facility pilots. Third-party throughput and labor-replacement metrics not available in published sources.
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From rollout to recharge.
- 01
Teach by demonstration
Engineers walk the humanoid through the target task, recording motion and contact data.
- 02
Train task policy
Sensor traces feed a learned policy that generalizes the demonstrated behavior across the workspace.
- 03
Whole-body manipulation
The robot executes the task with full-body coordination — handling tools, totes, or load points autonomously.
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Pilot loop & refine
Failures and exceptions feed back into training; the policy improves with each shift logged.
Picture this robot in your floor plan.
Upload a photo or floor plan of your venue and we'll show this robot at scale — so you can feel its footprint, sight lines, and clearance before deployment.
Scene preview · arriving in Phase 2
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