Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao robot has been a hit among robot enthusiasts who participate in the Robocup challenge, the annual humanoid robots soccer game.
Nao developed by the French company replaced Sony’s Aibo dog as the standard platform for the competition last year and that has helped boost its popularity among a select crowd of enthusiasts.
But the robot still has a way to go before most general users can get near it.
The fully programmable robot is packed with features. With its humanoid appearance can be made to do any number of tasks and comes with x86 AMD Geocode 500 Mhz CPU, 1 GB flash memory, 256 MB SDRAM, two speakers, vision processing capabilities, Wi-fi connectivity and Ethernet port.
The robot has 25 degrees of freedom, which means it can do a lot more than just tilt is head, look right, left and take a few steps.
