Nao (robot)

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A preview Nao robot under development for RoboCup at the Georgia Institute of Technology
A preview Nao robot under development for RoboCup at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Nao is an autonomous Humanoid robot, programmable and medium-sized, develop by the French company Aldebaran Robotics, a start-up which headquarters is located in Paris.

This little robot, which will be sold around 3000 euros, was presented to the public late 2006. Since August 15, 2007, Nao has become the standard platform for the Robocup, which describes itself as the World Cup of Robotics, replacing the robot dog Aibo Sony.


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[edit] Prototypes

For now, six prototypes of the robots were designed : AL01, AL02, AL03, AL04, AL05a and AL05b

All of these prototypes are designed as part of the "Nao Project", aimed at marketing in the second half of 2009 a final version of the prototype AL06 (which will be priced at about 3000 euros).


[edit] Specifications

Specifications
Height 58 cm
Degrees of freedom of movement 21 to 25[1]
Communication Wi-Fi

This robot will incorporate 2 speakers, 4 microphones, a video camera and many other sensors to interact with its environment. It recharges all by itself, recover if it fall, and recognize its owners.

This robot is not strictly speaking a service robot but is, among other things, intended to make life easier: it can, with its speech synthesizer read any text content on the Internet, to act as physical education or cooking teacher, tell jokes to children or to remind a patient that it's time to take medication.

[edit] Programming

Thanks to a computer (Linux, MacOS and Windows), it will be a programmable robot, using various languages including the language URBI and could learn many new behaviors, exchangeable between members of the community.

[edit] See also

  • Aldebaran Robotics
  • URBI

[edit] notes

  1. ^ depend to the version

[edit] External links

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