PAL Robotics TALOS vs Reachy 2

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

Reachy 2 by Pollen Robotics (now part of Hugging Face) is a purchasable open-source upper-body humanoid on an omnidirectional wheeled base. Official specs list 7-DoF arms with ~3 kg payload each, 136-166 cm adjustable height, up to 50 kg, stereo RGB-D, LiDAR, and ROS 2 + Python SDK. Press reports a $70,000 price and use at Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and major AI labs. It is explicitly a lab robot, not consumer, and is teleoperated or Python-controlled; no autonomous or reliability evidence was found. YouTube demos are title-only and cannot be used for capability inference