TIAGo

The mobile manipulator robot that fits and adapts to your research, not the other way around

TIAGo is continuously adapting to your research needs!

Our mobile manipulator robot TIAGo combines perception, navigation, manipulation & Human-Robot Interaction skills out of the box! Get the versatile mobile manipulation platform for your research project, or for competing in robotics competitions with your team. The mobile manipulator robot is suitable for research in fields such as Ambient-Assisted Living, Healthcare or Light industry. TIAGo is easily configurable and upgradeable to adapt to any research needs.

The mobile manipulator robot TIAGo in its different configurations
The mobile manipulator robot TIAGo Omni++ with Whole Body Control

One mobile manipulator robot, endless possibilities

Choose TIAGo’s end effectors, drive, computing capabilities and more. Our customizable mobile manipulator robot is available with a differential or omnidirectional drive in the mobile base, a lifting torso with adjustable screen, single or dual arms, and interchangeable end effectors. With numerous sensors and integrated programming, TIAGo is ready to safely interact with its environment and take on tasks that require perception, mobility and manipulation skills.

One mobile manipulator robot, endless possibilities

Choose TIAGo’s end effectors, drive, computing capabilities and more. Our customizable mobile manipulator robot is available with a differential or omnidirectional drive in the mobile base, a lifting torso with adjustable screen, single or dual arms, and interchangeable end effectors. With numerous sensors and integrated programming, TIAGo is ready to safely interact with its environment and take on tasks that require perception, mobility and manipulation skills.

The mobile manipulator robot TIAGo Omni++ with Whole Body Control

Start programming TIAGo with its ROS Tutorials!

TIAGo mobile manipulator robot has ROS tutorials available to get started with its open source simulation, which you can download online. You are also able to download a Docker image in order to get started right away with your mobile manipulator robot. Join the community that is pushing forward robotics with TIAGo, either through research projects, robotics competitions or from your own laptop!

TIAGo mobile manipulator robot during ROS tutorial

Technical specifications

Contact PAL Robotics and get in touch with a team of experts
who can assess you and provide you more information of TIAGo.

The mobile manipulator robot TIAGo with all the components

SPECS

Height 110-145 cm
Footprint ø 54 cm
Arm Payload 3 Kg (without end-effector)
Battery autonomy 4-5h (1 battery)/8-10h (2 batteries)
Mounting points On head, laptop tray and mobile base
OS Ubuntu LTS, Real Time OS

OPEN SOURCE

TIAGo simulation model and tutorials available at: wiki.ros.org/Robots/TIAGo

PREMIUM SOFTWARE

TIAGo Web User Interface

TIAGo Premium Software includes multiple packages of easy-to-use web applications for different needs. Build motions, program without coding, navigate and much more with our Web User Interface!

PREMIUM SOFTWARE

Advanced Grasping

Advanced Grasping Premium Software provides a framework for you to build your own grasping tasks! Combining behaviour trees, MoveIt!, and computer vision Advanced Grasping lets you perform complex manipulation tasks in a broad range of environments.

PREMIUM SOFTWARE

Whole Body Control

The Whole Body Control is a robot-agnostic controller written in the ros_control framework that allows you to control all robot joints -arm(s), torso and head- at the same time. It solves an optimal control problem written as a list of tasks in a hierarchical manner that gives the robot self-awareness. This provides an extra layer of security when operating the TIAGo robot.

Areas of use

USED FOR RESEARCH IN:

  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Manipulation
  • Perception
  • Navigation
  • Motion planning

FIELDS OF APPLICATION:

Factory of the Future

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Smart Cities and IoT

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Ambient Assisted Living

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Benchmarking

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TIAGo IS USED IN…

Videos TIAGo in action

Check out the full TIAGo YouTube Playlist!

The first edition of the Mobile Manipulation Hackathon was celebrated at IROS 2018. Here’s a summary of the demonstrations that the six participant teams could achieve with a TIAGo robot in 24h. Find out more about the MMH at IROS 2018.

PAL Robotics is excited to announce a new TIAGo with two arms, TIAGo++! After carefully listening to the robotics community needs, we used TIAGo’s modularity to integrate two 7-DoF arms to our mobile manipulator. TIAGo++ can help you swiftly accomplish your research goals, opening endless possibilities in mobile manipulation.

Check out the endless possibilities offered by our mobile manipulator robot TIAGo in this compilation video.

Our partnership with Heemskerk Innovative Technology (HIT) resulted in the successful control of TIAGo with a haptic device that lets the controller feel the forces in the robot’s environment. Discover how robots can help an ageing society.

PAL Robotics’ Whole Body Control is a ROS-based software system customized by our team to develop high-level applications by abstracting the complexity of a robot, especially when it has a large number of DoF. This is the case with humanoids TALOS, REEM-C or TIAGo.

PAL Robotics’ gravity compensation mode enables the development of multiple applications for robots that can match different needs, are safe and flexible. This video shows different examples of TIAGo demonstrations that use the gravity compensation mode.

TIAGo has a wide range of mobility thanks to its 12 Degrees of Freedom (without end-effector). Its 7 Dof arm and lifting torso enables TIAGo to reach objects from the floor up to 1.70m height.

Learning by demonstration software application for which TIAGo can pre-record movements and repeat them as many times as requested. The software is useful for collaborative tasks with people in fields like Industry 4.0.

TIAGo’s Research and Innovation Projects in Mobile Manipulation (MoMa)

Citations

Frequently Asked Questions

You can watch videos of TIAGo in action through the following YouTube TIAGo Playlist. In here you will find our mobile manipulator robot used for many research projects, robotics competitions or showing specific features. Enjoy!

The different motors of the mobile manipulator robot can be controlled using ROS interfaces. All the controllers provided are implemented as plugins of ros_control and are contained in ros_controllers. All the controllers run in the real-time control loop and have access to the full robot hardware interfaces exposed by ros_control. The motors of TIAGo can be controlled in the following modes:

  • The wheels of the mobile base can be controlled through velocity mode.
  • The motor of the lifting torso and the two motors of the head can be controlled in position mode.
  • Finally, the motors of the arm can be controlled in position and in effort mode.

Yes. The user only needs to create ros_control plugins to implement new controllers and add them to the ros_controllers or replace the desired ones. The new controllers will run in the real-time control loop and will have access to the full mobile manipulator robot hardware interfaces exposed by ros_control.

Yes. Compliance in TIAGo’s arm is achieved by using two mechanisms:

    • Sensorless torque control: open-loop torque references are commanded. This is based on feedforward current control which is achieved thanks to the accurate model of the arm dynamics including mechanics, electronics cabling and covers and the low friction of the joints. This results in a high acceptable force control in the operational space.
    • Admittance control: using the data from the force/torque sensor of the wrist, positions can be commanded taking external forces into account obtaining even much better results than when using sensorless torque control.

Yes. They use the same mounting connector and the same interface on the mobile manipulator robot. The process for interchanging the end effectors in TIAGo is very easy and fast.

TIAGo comes with one language and one voice that can be selected from this list. Additional languages or voices can be added to the mobile manipulator robot under customer demand.

The mobile manipulator robot has 1 year warranty on hardware. The warranty for your TIAGo can be extended according to your need.

Contact PAL Robotics team if you have any further questions!

TIAGo robot development was partially funded by Eurostars and CDTI.

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