Friday, March 20, 2009

A New Robot: Nao

From an email I just received - I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the look/feel of this robot:

Officially introduced at Robocup 2008, Nao is available for use in Research and Education programs worldwide. We invite you to view the "Nao Academic's Edition " video - a two minute film that presents some possible usage scenarios.

This new humanoid robot, developed in Europe by Aldebaran Robotics has many features that make it appropriate for classroom and research use:

- develop biped motion behaviors

- develop localization and mapping algorithms

- develop camera analysis algorithms

- study interaction with kids or the elderly

- onboard computer, many sensors, speech synthesis, open API

- supports multiple languages including C++, Urbi and Python

- and much more....

He is fully programmable and can behave autonomously. With more than 200 Naos in daily use worldwide, Nao is becoming a proven platform for Research and Education.

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