TIAGo Head
Tabletop social robot head — standalone HRI research alternative to full mobile manipulator
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$13K - $13K
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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 Head 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 your lab needs ROS 2 HRI research with local data processing and full privacy control. Skip if you require mobile manipulation or production-grade throughput—TIAGo Head is tabletop-bound research hardware.
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When to deploy this.
- University robotics labs: Multi-year student projects in HRI, gesture recognition, dialogue systems
- Hospital reception: Patient check-in, wayfinding, routine info delivery at fixed desk stations
- Museum/library automation: 24/7 visitor engagement, educational content delivery, accessibility-focused interfaces
When to skip it.
- Tabletop-only form factor — no mobility, no manipulation, unsuitable for logistics or material-handling contexts
- Fixed 110V/230V AC power requirement — no battery autonomy, limits deployment flexibility and event-based temporary installations
- No outdoor durability: designed for indoor controlled environments; rain, dust, and temperature swings will disable or damage electronics
What's verified, what's estimated.
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Specs derived from official PAL Robotics datasheet (dimensions, weight, I/O, power). Capabilities mapped from official product page describing ROS 2 architecture, local data processing, expressive interaction, and real-time skeletal/emotional tracking. Positioning as tabletop HRI research platform confirmed by academic paper (Cooper et al., 2025) noting TIAGo Head as "cost-effective, standalone alternative" to full TIAGo Pro. Pricing unavailable in public sources; €12,950 reference drawn from EU datasheet listing for standard research package. No third-party deployment data; maturity assessed as "pilot-ready" given lab-focused positioning and lack of commercial fleet announcements.
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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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