LimX Oli vs PAL Robotics TALOS

LimX Oli is a pre-order, 165 cm, 55 kg, 31-DoF biped research humanoid from LimX Dynamics, priced from RMB 158,000 (~$21,800). It has dual Intel RealSense depth cameras, a 6-axis IMU, modular design and slide-out battery, but no official payload, runtime, battery capacity or walking speed. The strongest public evidence is a secondary research summary reporting stair climbing of a 33-step spiral staircase in 12 seconds with zero falls, and benchmark returns of 0.85 for velocity tracking. Official video titles claim fully autonomous tennis ball picking and scalable autonomous deployment, but no transcripts or independent verification were found. No named customer deployment exists

PAL Robotics TALOS is a full-size biped humanoid (175 cm, 95 kg) introduced around 2017 and sold to research labs. Official evidence confirms 6 kg per-arm payload, 1.5 h walking runtime, torque sensors in most joints, and EtherCAT control loops up to 5 kHz; ROBOTS guide adds 32 DoF, 1080 Wh battery and approximate €900,000 cost. The robot is ROS-based with an open-source URDF under Apache 2.0. However, reviewed public evidence contains no autonomous task demonstration or capability video content beyond titles, and no commercial deployment metrics