# PAL TALOS at Toulouse: deployment

Canonical ID: `d28986c5-bd52-48ce-94ef-3bcf13f511a8`

LAAS-CNRS (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes, CNRS Toulouse) operates a PAL Robotics TALOS humanoid as a primary research platform for whole-body loco-manipulation, dynamic walking, and dexterous manipulation. The LAAS-CNRS team (Olivier Stasse et al.) co-authored the original TALOS paper at the 2017 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots and has published extensively on control, planning, and motion generation using their TALOS unit. TALOS is a 1.75m, 95kg torque-controlled humanoid designed for industrial research.

## Footage

- **video** (deployment): [PAL Robotics TALOS research humanoid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzHe8FG984). _Courtesy of PAL Robotics_. PAL Robotics footage of its TALOS research humanoid walking, grasping, and collaborating. A research-platform capability reel of engineered demonstrations.

## Key facts

- **Robot:** PAL Robotics TALOS (1.75m, 95kg, torque-controlled)
- **Use case:** Whole-body loco-manipulation research, dynamic walking, dexterous manipulation
- **Deployment type:** Academic/research lab
- **Key publications:** IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2017 (Stasse et al.), multiple IROS/ICRA papers

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-06-12_

- **Slug:** pal-talos-laas-cnrs-toulouse
- **Status:** operational
- **Model:** [PAL TALOS](/models/pal-talos.md) (id: `2b903826-610b-4824-a8aa-b4ac2ed38155`)
- **Company:** [PAL Robotics](/companies/pal-robotics.md) (id: `c0786bec-3c97-4fd0-abca-4cb243c58936`)
- **Location:** [Toulouse](/locations/toulouse.md) (id: `70abb250-216d-454b-a8e2-c9791376df19`)
- **Operator:** [LAAS-CNRS](/companies/laas-cnrs.md) (id: `35692829-f1ab-41f2-a82b-97fc416396fa`)
- **First seen:** 2017-06-01T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. **PAL Robotics — TALOS product page listing research institution partners including LAAS-CNRS** · https://pal-robotics.com/robots/talos/
2. **IEEE RAS 2017 — 'TALOS: A new humanoid research platform targeted for industrial applications' (Stasse et al., LAAS-CNRS team)** · https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8246947

## Common questions

### What is the PAL TALOS deployment at Toulouse?

PAL TALOS, built by PAL Robotics, is recorded as a deployment at Toulouse on the DEPLOY registry. LAAS-CNRS operates the deployment.

### Who operates PAL TALOS at Toulouse?

LAAS-CNRS operates this deployment as a customer of PAL Robotics, the manufacturer of PAL TALOS.

### When did the PAL TALOS deployment at Toulouse go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting June 1, 2017 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Have there been incidents at the PAL TALOS deployment at Toulouse?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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