Introduction
NAO is a research platform used by more than 550 prestigious universities and research labs around the world.
It is a versatile platform used to explore a wide variety of research topics in robotics as well as computer science, human-machine interaction, and the social sciences.
This fully programmable robot comes with a programming environment suitable even for researchers with no programming experience.
NAO’s many sensors and actuators, convenient size, and attractive appearance, combined with sophisticated embedded software, makes it a unique humanoid robot ideal for many research fields.
NAO boasts, for example, face and object recognition, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech in seven languages, and whole body motion.
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“The NAO robot allows rapid prototyping of social behavior, including emotions, without struggling with low-level technical details.”
Markus Häring
Human Centered Multimedia / Augsburg University (Germany)
