TUM LOLA

LOLA is a full-size bipedal research humanoid developed by the Applied Mechanics group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). A peer-reviewed system paper describing the platform was published in 2007, and development has continued through several hardware revisions.

TUM's current project page describes LOLA as an electrically actuated humanoid with 26 distributed joints, a height of 176 cm and a total mass of 68 kg. A 2024 TUM system description identifies this configuration as LOLA v1.1 and gives a more precise height of 1.763 m and mass of 68.2 kg. It reports biped walking at up to 3.38 km/h, equivalent to about 0.94 m/s.

Each foot has a custom six-axis force/torque sensor and four contact switches. The hands carry additional six-axis force/torque sensors, while an accelerometer, ring laser gyroscope and head-mounted vision sensors support state estimation and perception. The platform remains tethered for safety and electrical power and has no onboard battery.

TUM lists LOLA under current projects and continues to publish work using the platform. It is therefore classified as a prototype rather than discontinued. It is a laboratory research system, with no price or sales channel.