Ten years driving robotics from the laboratory to industry through Dynamograde
The robotics ecosystem in Europe is moving towards greater technological maturity through established collaborations. Against this backdrop, PAL France, a Toulouse-based robotics commercial company and Research and Development (R&D) center and a French subsidiary of PAL Robotics Alliance, is consolidating its position as a key player within the French innovation landscape. This year, we are attending VivaTech 2026, sharing a stand with our leading scientific partner, the LAAS-CNRS (Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes), providing the ideal setting to present the main milestones in industrial technology transfer achieved by our joint laboratory, Dynamograde.
The relationship between PAL France and LAAS-CNRS is a success story that began with a major milestone in 2015: the collaboration on the manufacture and delivery of the high-performance bipedal humanoid robot TALOS – the first unit of which was named Pyrenne, symbolising the partnership between France and Spain. This synergy continued with the development of European projects such as MEMMO (Memory of Motion), focused on optimising motion memory in bipedal robots, and AGIMUS, aimed at the technical validation of collaborative robotics in strategic industrial sectors. In addition to participation in strategic national initiatives such as the TIRREX programme, which is key to the development of robotics research in the country. All this structural cooperation was formalised in 2022 through the creation of the Dynamograde laboratory, with the aim of combining the CNRS’s academic research into motion generation with PAL France’s industrial expertise and scalability. A clear example of the milestones achieved by this partnership has been the validation of our force control and locomotion algorithms, a breakthrough that was demonstrated by the robots’ ability to respond dynamically and precisely to physical interactions in real time.
Ahead of the event, on Wednesday 17 June, LAAS-CNRS and PAL France will take to the Discovery Stage for a presentation entitled “Dynamograde: the power behind the movement of legged robots!”. During this demonstration, they will showcase the technical commissioning of the Kangaroo bipedal humanoid and the operation of the advanced mobile manipulator TIAGo Pro.
The prospects for this partnership extend to the conclusion of the European AGIMUS project, which includes the supply of three TIAGo Pro industrial pilots in the aerospace, paper and lift manufacturing sectors. In this way, the collaboration between PAL Robotics, PAL France and LAAS-CNRS establishes a vision for the future in which stable scientific partnerships remain the cornerstone for ensuring the development, reliability and competitiveness of the next generation of service robotics in France and across Europe.