ARI

The perfect mix of Service Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in one single platform

Your AI Social Robot

ARI is our latest social humanoid robot where you can easily integrate your AI algorithms. Thanks to its combination of Intel i9 and Nvidia® Xavier or Nvidia® Orin GPU, it will allow you to finally have enough processing power available for your developments and dive into the limitless applications of AI. Let’s shape the future together!

Building meaningful connections, made easy

ARI is a high-performance robotic platform designed for a wide range of multimodal expressive gestures and behaviors, making it the ideal social robot, that is suitable for Human-Robot-Interaction, perception, cognition, navigation, and interaction. Its behavior can be customized using the provided, easy to use, web interface. You can also dive deeper and integrate it thanks to its extensive ROS API to easily develop, simulate and deploy application on the robot.

Building meaningful connections, made easy

ARI is a high-performance robotic platform designed for a wide range of multimodal expressive gestures and behaviours, making it the ideal social robot and suitable for Human-Robot-Interaction, perception, cognition, navigation, and interaction. Its behaviour can be customized using the provided, easy to use, web interface. You can also dive deeper and integrate it thanks to its extensive ROS API to easily develop, simulate and deploy application on the robot.

Social robotics for today’s needs

Thanks to its touchscreen, gaze control and versatile gestures it is the ideal platform for human-robot interaction. Its curvy humanoid design as well as its LCD eyes promote user acceptance and engagement. Expressive, helpful and entertaining, ARI helps you design the social interactions you are aiming for.

Agile Motions

Cartesian Control
Graphical interface to create motions
12 DoF

Expressive Interactions

Animated Eyes
22 off the shelf expressions
Rich gaze control

Semantic Knowledge

Symbolic knowledge base
OWL/RDF Compliant
Fast first order logic reasoner

Social Perception

Face detection
Face identification
Full 2D/3D body tracking
Automatic engagement detection

100% ROS

Open platform
Logging and monitoring

Learning

Deep Learning
Imitation Learning
Motion planning

Vision

3D Perception
Face and object recognition
Automatic video analysis

Social

Human-Robot Interaction
Emotion Recognition
Safety / ethics
Natural Language Processing

Smart Cities and IoT

Data Analysis
Biometric data
Environment data

Recommendation system

Personalization
Cognitive robotics

100% ROS

Open platform
Logging and monitoring

ARI in action

Our newest expressive platform focused on HRI

ARI IS USED IN…

EU project SPRING: thanks to this project we are developing service robotics that could help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

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How we are supporting healthy living for older individuals with project SHAPES

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Home social robot – ARI helping in homes through EU project SHAPES

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Technical specifications

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

SPECS

Height	165 cm
Operating System	Ubuntu LTS
ROS Version	ROS LTS
CPU	Intel i5/i7/i9
GPU	Nvidia Xavier NX, CUDA compatible (optional) Nvidia Orin, CUDA compatible (optional)

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SPECS

Height	165 cm
Operating System	Ubuntu LTS
ROS Version	ROS LTS
CPU	Intel i7
GPU	NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2 option

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Citations

Lorenzo Ferrini, Séverin Lemaignan (2022): Kinematically-consistent Real-time 3D Human Body Estimation for Physical and Social HRI

Sara Cooper, Séverin Lemaignan (2022): Towards using Behaviour Trees for Long-term Social Robot Behaviour

Sara Cooper, Francesco Ferro (2022): Lessons Learnt from Deploying ARI in Residential Care

Fraser Robinson, Goldie Nejat (2022): An analysis of design recommendations for socially assistive robot helpers for effective human-robot interactions in senior care

Adi Bulgaro, Ela Liberman-Pincu, Tal Oron-Gilad (2022): Participatory Design in Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults: bridging the gap between elicitation methods and the generation of design requirements

Xi Vincent, Wang Lihui Wang (2021): A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sara Cooper, Óscar Villacañas, Luca Marchionni, Francesco Ferro (2021): Robot to support older people to live independently

Ioanna Dratsiou, Oscar Villacañas, Sara Cooper, Pavlos Isaris, Manex Serras, Luis Unzueta, Victor Fernandez-Carbajales (2021): Assistive Technologies for Supporting Wellbeing of Older Adults

Anzhu Gao, Robin R. Murphy, Weidong Chen, Giulio Dagnino, Peer Fischer, Maximiliano G. Gutierrez, Dennis Kundrat, Bradley J. Nelson, Naveen Shamsudhin, Hao Su, Jingen Xia, Ajmal Zemmar, Dandan Zhang, Chen Wangand, Guang-Zhong Yang (2021): Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases

Sara Cooper, Alessandro Di Fava, Óscar Villacañas, Tatiana Silva, Victor Fernandez-Carbajales, Luis Unzueta, Manex Serras, Luca Marchionni, Francesco Ferro (2021): Social robotic application to support active and healthy ageing

Yang Shen, Dejun Guo, Fei Long, Luis A. Mateos, Houzhu Ding, Zhen Xiu, Randall B. Hellman, Adam King, Shixun Chen, Chengkun Zhang, Huan Tan (2021): Robots Under COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Survey

Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Jose L. Part, Yanchao Yu, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon (2021): Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction

Elena Battini Sönmez, Hasan Han, Oguzcan Karadeniz, Tugba Dalyan, Baykal Sarıoglu (2021): EMRES: A New EMotional RESpondent Robot

Tinatin Verdzeuli, Pajdla Tomáš (2021): InLoc Visual Localization for ARI robot

Francesco Ferro, Federico Nardi, Sara Cooper, Luca Marchionni (2020): Robot Control and Navigation: ARI’s Navigation System

Juan Miguel Garcia-Haro, Edwin Daniel Oña, Juan Hernandez-Vicen, Santiago Martinez, Carlos Balaguer (2020): Service Robots in Catering Applications: A Review and Future Challenges

Sara Cooperh, Alessandro Di Fava, Carlos Vivas, Luca Marchionni, Francesco Ferro (2020): ARI: the Social Assistive Robot and Companion

Francesco Ferro, Federico Nardi, Sara Cooper, Luca Marchionni (2020): Robot Control and Navigation: ARI’s Navigation System

Juan Miguel Garcia-Haro, Edwin Daniel Oña, Juan Hernandez-Vicen, Santiago Martinez, Carlos Balaguer (2020): Service Robots in Catering Applications: A Review and Future Challenges

Sara Cooper, Alessandro Di Fava, Carlos Vivas, Luca Marchionni, Francesco Ferro (2020): ARI: the Social Assistive Robot and Companion

ARI’s Research Projects in Social and Assistive Robotics

Frequently Asked Questions

How ARI can help my business?

Expressive, helpful and entertaining, ARI helps you design the social interactions you are aiming for. Our collaborative robot has been created as a safe, interactive and autonomous social robot that can help you with customer-facing activities.

As a receptionist, guide, entertainer or presenter; it connects with your customers. Find out more by reaching out to our team here.

How easy is it to deploy?

Our social robot is very easy to deploy. It has an intuitive user interface that helps you easily adapt the collaborative robot to your needs. If you want to know more about how to use the robot to your environment, we are happy to hear more about your needs and help you along the way. You can reach out to our team via the contact form and we will get back to you within at most one business day.

How Is ARI integrated into my environment?

ARI is easily integrated with external systems. The social robot has WiFi capabilities and could connect to your facility network infrastructure and internet based cloud services. It has a powerful and extensive API that integrators and end-users can take advantage of in order to connect the collaborative robot with thousands of different services.

Is ARI able to work in my environment without any modifications?

ARI adapts to most environments, so you won’t need to make any modifications in the majority of the cases. The social humanoid robot uses advanced technology based on multiple sensors that allows the robot to safely interact and navigate without requiring any modification such as guiding tracks or other complex installation that other platforms might need.

How many languages can it speak?

ARI is able to speak in more than 30 languages and this is just the start for our social robotics. If you have a need for a specific language, please let us know and we can confirm you if our social robot is able to speak that language.

How easy is it to operate this social robot?

An intuitive and user friendly web-based interface allows you to easily alter ARI’s touchscreen content, speech, and even create your own gestures. This way, we ensure that the applications and behaviour of our social robot can be easily controlled from any device such as desktop, smartphone or tablet.

How can I customize my social robot?

ARI’s motions, speeches and touchscreen contents are easy to adapt by using the provided SDK to match the needs of your application.
ARI’s eyes are also customizable for enabling better interactions.

Multiple themes are available for the touchscreen and the brightness is adaptable to different light conditions. In case you need a customization for a larger volume of units such as a special color, please let us know and we will be happy to find a way to help you with the desired customization for your collaborative robot.