TIAGO
Mobile manipulator combining perception, navigation, manipulation, and human-robot interaction for research and light industrial pickup in structured indoor venues.
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$34K - $100K
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, TIAGO 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 research lab, university robotics program, or healthcare facility piloting human-interaction tasks. Skip if you need a robot that lifts >5 kg, works outdoors, or deploys without custom software — TIAGo is a developer platform, not a commercial black box.
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When to deploy this.
- Research platform for mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction studies in academic labs
- Prototype testing for light-duty pick-place tasks in structured factory or warehouse pilot zones
- Healthcare delivery and social companionship trials in hospital and senior-care environments
When to skip it.
- Restricted arm payload (3 kg fully extended) makes it unsuitable for typical warehouse or kitchen picking
- Steep learning curve: requires ROS expertise and custom software integration for any real deployment
- Battery life and outdoor performance not documented; confined to indoor structured environments
What's verified, what's estimated.
Robofy separates manufacturer-confirmed facts from operator estimates. Anything not yet press-sourced or supplier-confirmed is tagged so you can decide how much weight to give it.
Base and variant specifications sourced from PAL Robotics official datasheets (2024–2025); pricing anchored to 2019 Robot Report interview mentioning ~€90,000 baseline, cross-checked with 2013 IEEE Spectrum article citing $34,000–$68,000 range. Deployment context and use-case details from academic papers on TIAGo healthcare trials, warehouse simulations, and EU robotics projects (IROPER, PILLAR-Robots, SeCoIIA). No official press kit found; company maintains active GitHub and ROS.org community presence.
- Deployment readinessInferred
- ROI clarityInferred
- Labor replacement potentialInferred
- Environment fitInferred
- Maintenance riskInferred
- Future potentialInferred
- Lease rangeEstimated
- Battery lifeEstimated
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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.
- 04
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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