PAL Robotics is bringing its new standalone TIAGo Pro Arm to IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, giving physical-AI researchers a seven-axis manipulation platform built around ROS 2 and real-time low-level control.
The Barcelona robotics company says the TIAGo Pro Arm is designed for manipulation, robot learning, perception and AI-driven robotics research. PAL Robotics is demonstrating the platform at Booth 1005 during IROS, which runs from September 27 through October 1 at Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Seven degrees of freedom with ROS 2
The arm provides seven degrees of freedom and uses PAL Robotics’ Series Elastic Actuators. Its software stack is based on ROS 2 and ros2_control, giving developers access to standard robotics tooling rather than locking experimentation behind a closed control system.
PAL lists a 95-centimeter reach, 0.3-millimeter repeatability and 1 kHz EtherCAT control. Three joints support continuous rotation, expanding the usable workspace for manipulation and reducing the need to stop and unwind joints during longer experiments.
Built for physical AI experiments
The platform can operate as a fixed standalone arm or be combined with mobile systems such as PAL’s TIAGo Pro OMNI Base. Researchers can also integrate additional sensors and end effectors for experiments in computer vision, perception, robot learning and AI-guided manipulation.
The standalone design removes the large external control cabinet common to some industrial robot systems. PAL says the arm can instead run from a compact controller, PC or mini-PC, making it easier to integrate into research benches and existing robotics setups.
IROS puts the hardware in front of researchers
The IROS demonstration matters because physical AI increasingly depends on hardware that researchers can directly program, instrument and modify. Open access to ROS 2, simulation tools and low-level controls gives teams a path from software experiments to physical manipulation without changing platforms.
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