If you and your family are rich but too bored, you might consider getting an entertainment robot to bring more excitements into your life. Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO, is a humanoid robot that is made for this purpose and it carries a huge price tag of $15,000.
NAO is equipped with bells and whistles. It has limbs with 25 degrees of freedom, operable hands, stereo vision, voice recognition and synthesis and it’s driven by a programmable Linux operating system. You can progam NAO in either a graphical environment or code environment (Urbi scripting language, considered pretty easy to learn).
The programming environments of this bot are made to suit all ranges of skill. Of course, for average users they will definitely choose to program it in GUI mode. For those geeky ones, will want to try the coding environment. You can also program it via WiFi.
Besides being able to add software and behaviors via the bot’s programmable OS, you can also have little customization for the hardware, such as swapping its head out. The Nao is expected to hit the market in end of 2009, and as mentioned, the price shall be between $15,000 and $16,000. The Nao robot is only 23-inch tall, but he should be a pretty amusing one, since he carries all the bells and whistles. We have a video to show the Nao bot in action.
via [botjunkie]
January 7th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
It should be affordable for all people. Why dose it cost so much.