PAL Robotics · research humanoid
Kangaroo
Bipedal research platform with linear actuators placed near the hips for agile, impact-tolerant walking. Note: it is headless and early versions are lower-body only, so it may fail the head-and-arms inclusion rule.
- Price
- —Aggregators list about $100,000 (unconfirmed).
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Kangaroo is on the market today.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
PAL RoboticsCompany · founded 2004 · Barcelona, SpainPrivately held; early humanoids were developed for Abu Dhabi-based Pal Technology (Gulf News, 2008); no venture rounds found
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Kangaroo has more joints than 39% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Kangaroo and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Kangaroo gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 28 joints
- Actuators & motors
- Custom linear electric actuators with integrated force sensors placed near the pelvis; the research paper describes 6 ball-screw linear actuators per leg (12 total) driving closed linkages, knee tested to 5,000 N.
- Hands
- Interchangeable: 1-DoF parallel gripper, Seed Robotics RH8D (5 fingers, 7 DoF, fingertip pressure sensors) or Inspire RH56 hands (5 fingers, 6 DoF, tactile); arms 4, 5 or 7 DoF with ISO tool flange.
- Sensors & vision
- 4 RGB-D cameras; 1 kHz IMU/AHRS; optional 6-axis F/T sensors at wrists and feet; force sensors in leg actuators; linear and rotary encoders.
- Compute
- Two Intel i7 PCs (control and multimedia, 32 GB RAM each); optional NVIDIA Jetson; EtherCAT at 2 kHz.
- Battery & power
- 976 Wh (15 Ah, 63 V).
- Materials & build
- Lightweight low-inertia legs; plastic knee shells and torso protection cages (paper).
- AI & software
- Ubuntu LTS, ROS 2 LTS and PAL OS; ros2_control with impedance/force modes; URDF/MJCF models; MuJoCo and mjlab for RL; pre-built walking, running, jumping, stair and box-picking policies.
- Other details
- 2x Wi-Fi 6; 1.60 m tall, 50-65 kg depending on configuration, 14-40 DoF.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)IntelInspire RobotsSeed Robotics
Lineage
Every PAL Robotics humanoid in order.
Watch Kangaroo
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedAggregators list about $100,000 (unconfirmed).
- How to get one
- Maker's website
- Sold or delivered
- units not published
- Where it is sold or used
- Europe (PAL offices in Spain, Italy, France)
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Kangaroo leg mechanics paper updated
PAL researchers published a model of Kangaroo's hybrid serial-parallel legs.
PAL Robotics / arXiv
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | KangarooPAL Robotics |  H1Unitree RoboticsSame job: research · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |  G1Unitree RoboticsSame job: research · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |  BRUCEWestwood Robotics (with UCLA RoMeLa)Same job: research · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2023-12 | 2023-08 | 2024-05 | 2022-12-30 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 132 cm | 70 cm |
| Weight | — | 47 kg | 35 kg | 4.8 kg |
| Joints | 28 | — | 23 | 16 |
| Speed | — | 11.9 km/h | 7.2 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — | 2 kg | — |
| Battery | — | — | 2 h | 0.3 h |
| Price | — | $90,000 | $13,500 | $8,890 |
Sources
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