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Nao, the humanoid robot, receives an award for his technological advances
Nao continues to progress and wins the 2010 Hermes Innovation Excellence Award given by the prestigious Club de l’Innovation, in the Relations between Humans category.
Nao is the world’s most-sold interactive, self-contained and programmable humanoid robot intended for research and education… and he is French! After two years on the market, Nao’s new software version further extends his capacities, incorporating unique innovations.
These represent two major and unprecedented breakthroughs: the first is an omni-directional stabilised walk enabling Nao to remain stable while moving towards a specific target. The second is the ability to constantly generate a sequence of movements by activating all his joints to reach a position (view the video referred to below).
This award further establishes Nao’s creator, the French company Aldebaran Robotics, as the sector’s worldwide leader. “Receiving such a prestigious award acknowledges the work of our entire team over the past five years. Peer recognition for the excellence of what we have developed is very encouraging and inspires us to go even further!” states Bruno Maisonnier, Aldebaran Robotics’ founding Chairman.
To celebrate, Nao now adorns a new grey-coloured shell. You can observe the above-mentioned innovations and Nao’s new presentation by viewing a video and photos available here
Press contact: Bastien Parent - PR Manager - bparent@aldebaran-robotics.com
About Aldebaran Robotics
Aldebaran Robotics is a Paris-based company specialised in the design and production of humanoid robots. With a team of almost 100 people, Aldebaran Robotics has, over the past five years, become the world leader in humanoid research and educational robotics, with over 500 Nao robots sold in 27 countries. For further information click here
About Nao
Nao is the most-sold humanoid research and educational robot in the world. Entirely programmable, equipped with numerous sensors and interactive capacities, Nao is used for research projects as varied as robotic and, sociology or in medical fields. Since May 2010, Nao is also marketed for robotic studies and will be available to the public at large at the end of 2011.
About the Hermes innovation Award
The Hermes Innovation Awards aim to honour companies or organisations, which have managed to integrate the highest level of scientific expertise into products and services in view of improving personal and community fulfilment. The Hermes Innovation Awards are excellence awards based on a multi-criteria assessment of innovations corresponding to a breakthrough in one of four major fields concerning humanistic creative synthesis: the human condition, Relations between Humans, urban evolution, sustainable human development. For further information: click here
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on -
@Stign: Nao's hardware is fully developed by Aldebaran, if that's what you mean. You can see a photo of him at the top of the page! Or you could find more info here
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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Sorry, I didn't realise you were being that specific ;-) I wouldn't expect Aldebaran to have the factories to actually make all the parts for Nao, but I believe a lot of parts are custom made - the body shell, obviously, but also a lot of his innards.
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Permalink Reply by Stijn on
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Yes indeed! Well a while back i was wondering what it would use: servo's or dc motors. Turns out they use dc motors ;-) Did you know they are making a second robot 'Romeo'?
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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Yes! It should be out in March. It's a huge challenge to upscale a robot like that, though, it's not just like multiplying all the dimensions by two! Can you imagine how fat his legs would be?? :P
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Permalink Reply by Stijn on
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Haha :D I thought they are going to use muscular-like actuators, speculations though :D
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Permalink Reply by Cerberus on
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this thing is sweet - any chance the price will drop to where it can be reached by an average consumer / hobbyist?
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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Aldebaran launched something called the "Nao Developer Program" in December, basically they're giving some good developers a chance to be part of deciding what Nao should do next. For members of the program, Nao + all the Aldebaran software will cost 3600€ - not cheap I agree, but still a lot less than the 12 000€ they charge researchers!
You can find more information here.
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Permalink Reply by Lamp Shade on -
this is a great product - when are you reviewing it? i tried to get some information on it - but when i found out the price i was a bit blown away.. they need to think about the consumers and not just researchers that may also want to make something with this and do their own experimenting
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Permalink Reply by Danny on -
We have been trying to get our hands on this unit for review - however - they are not quite ready to release this at this time. They just recently allowed the developer program for many people that were interested. I would assume when it is more main stream they will send out a product.. Crossing fingers but not holding my breath..
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