Nov 28, 2012 im not sure who was more excited here, the kids or dad. Finally, you can get a constant support from aldebaran robotics, and other people in the nao developer program. It contains all kind of useful resources such as behaviors and. Nao is a programmable humanoid robot from aldebaran robotics that is 58 centimeters tall and has a unique combination of hardware and software. Subsequently, aldebaran developed a second binocular camera system to go into the head of nao v5. Later, you will be able to find the documentations and softwares for pepper and nao on the new softbank robotics website dedicated to developers, the developer center and on the emea softbank robotics support area. However the documentation is too much and too complicated for. Software, sdk and full documentation delivered software, sdk and full documentation delivered with nao are available on the dvd home page. In total, there are 25 motors controlling the movement of the nao. Start a command window by typing windowskey in combination with r or by clicking windowsrun. Nao documentation on aldebarans website is a very complete one, covering all aspects of nao robots, sdk, software, frameworks etc.
Make sure your nao is registered on your aldebaran community user account for further details, see. Aldebaran robotics provides some desktop software packages which ease the programming or accessing to several resources of nao, e. The nao is small, but it the use of nao with ros has demonstrated how quickly opensource code can enable a community to come together around a common hardware. How to create a great experience with pepper read pdf download pdf last update. Three different types of motors are utilized in the nao robots. Find here documentation, resources choregraphe, robot settings, naoqi os, etc. Matlab sdk intallation for windows the following installation will be done on microsoft windows 7. Nao comes with embedded software, running on the motherboard located in the head of the robot, allowing autonomous behaviors desktop software, running on your computer, allowing creation of new behaviors, and the remote control of the robot there are also tools for programmers, allowing remote control of the robot and the expansion of its capabilities. All nao apis and sdks can be downloaded from the aldebaran community website. Download the free white paper it doesnt matter if you are a software developer or a life sciences researcher, every one can program nao. Telepathe is a little software you can use to read the sensors data. Dear users, the community website will close on jun 1st, 2020. Naos autonomy varies between 30 minutes and 2 hours depending on usage and what youre doing. Retrieving software softbank robotics developer center.
Weve gone through the software so now were gonna go back to our index and were gonna look at the getting started section. But the battery will charge only if pepper is powered off and plugged to its adapter. This is a getting started guide for users who are new to the nao world. The ros driver is provided by freiburgs humanoid robots lab in alufrrospkg, which essentially wraps the needed parts of aldebaran s naoqi api and makes it available in ros. The chest button hitting the chest button turns the nao on for the very first time. Available commands for controlling the execution of. In terms of software, aldebaran improved whole body motion controls, voice recognition, sound localization, and face and image recognition nao can learn to identify objects like photographs and. To start with were gonna have to look at some nao safety stuff.
Nao pronounced now is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by aldebaran robotics, a french robotics company headquartered in paris, which was acquired by softbank group in 2015 and rebranded as softbank robotics. The production rights to this product were sold to. The latest version of nao with 10 major areas of improvement is here. An application is a set of content that can be installed on a robot from the aldebaran online store. Hi all, i was wondering if there is something we can do or tune to get better performance when doing exploration and navigation using pepper. Aldebaran nao nao is a humanoid robot produced by aldebaran robotics. The ros driver is provided by freiburgs humanoid robots lab in alufrrospkg, which essentially wraps the needed parts of aldebarans naoqi api and makes it available in ros. It consists of sensors, motors, and software driven by naoqi, a dedicated operating system.
Aldebaran software, for the duration of the applicable intellectual property rights. Movement libraries are available through graphics tools such as aldebarans choregraphe software. Works with barcode readers, magnetic striple cards readers, russian ecrs and posprinters. The robots development began with the launch of project nao in 2004. Resources remain accessible on the website until it closes. Aldebaran online store is the main way to install and manage applications from choregraphe, the robot applications panel offers shortcuts letting you install and test on your robot the application designed in the current project. System requirements verifying your graphics driver installation installation procedure webots license agreement telemetry translating. Presentation of nao, an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by aldebaran. The aldebaran nao is a commercially available, 60cm tall, humanoid robot targeted at research lab and classrooms. Softbank robotics documentation whats new in naoqi 2. Aldebaran dont recommend to set an ip address on ethernet use the locallink method instead. Webots for nao is a lite version of webots, it is not designed to let you use other robots nor create new robot controllers.
To configure the nao, you have to connect it via ethernet. Nao robot api support for matlab enables matlab users to. Aldebaran robotics was established in 2005 by bruno maisonnier, who had. Trade equipment server and client pos package for use in fastfoods. The naoqi embedded software is crossplatform and forms a distributed robotics framework. Access the software resources of aldebaran community website. Mar 06, 2016 alright to give you some useful links were looking at nao documentation here and aldebaran forums here. Set the basic parameters with robot settings, download content from the application store and stard talking with nao 6. Im not sure who was more excited here, the kids or dad.
View and download aldebaran robotics nao user manual online. Once the upload finished, restart your robot, and follow the flashing process. Aldebarans nao robot with its new developper only prototype of charging station duration. The nao robot has come from a small start to become once of the standard tools of educational and research robotics and it is also a lot of fun. Personal robot teaching assistant softbank robotics.
With 3000 pieces sold to 550 different universities, nao is the most widely used humanoid robot for academic purposes worldwide. Right now, just a radius is used to make the exploration, and for places such as offices, anyth. Make sure your nao is registered on your aldebaran community user account. May 25, 2018 hi all, i was wondering if there is something we can do or tune to get better performance when doing exploration and navigation using pepper. This section explains how to use nao robot simulated in webots. Sign up simple actions pick and place based on moveit for romeo, pepper, and nao. To integrate robots into our daily lives, aldebaran set out to create a family of companion robots. Section everything section contentbg section headercontent section toplogo. Pepper can be used while it is plugged in with the adapter. The rescue software update upgrades the nao s software with the given opennao software release and. Resets the whole system in a similar state as if the robot was just out of the factory.
Users can develope new modules and programs using sdks which are provided by aldebaran robotics. Python sdk install guide softbank robotics developer center. Armin hornung, university of freiburg nao is a commercially available humanoid robot built by aldebaran robotics. Nao pronounced now is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by. Aldebaran nao v6, nao pronounced now is an autonomous. Alright to give you some useful links were looking at nao documentation here and aldebaran forums here.
You can create elaborate behaviors, access the data acquired. Rsb is a platformindependent eventdriven middleware specifically designed for the needs of distributed. Setup the development environment for nao robot varteq. Aldebaran documentation home nao romeo site map search index. Aldebaran formed in 2005, aldebaran is the result of a dream, of the vision bruno maisonnier fostered since he was a child. The humanoid programmable nao evolution robot has a multiplatform environment and offers powerful programming capacities with low and high level apis, allowing users to create elaborate behaviours by using its features. Matlab sdk intallation for windows cleveland state university.
Programmable humanoid nao evolution robot software suite. The licence also includes all necessary rights for the buyer, without conferring to the buyer the right to sublicense the aldebaran software, to install the aldebaran software and use the documentation in connection with the use of the aldebaran software. Jan, 2011 aldebaran s nao robot with its new developper only prototype of charging station duration. Reading, writing, math, prealgebra, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus and programming. Be careful to select the archive corresponding to your operating system windows, mac or linux, and when using windows to your version of visual studio to check it, see helpabout visual studio. At the moment a nao is still a little too expensive to be used as a recreational platform but who knows. The nao robot compressed and zipped file needs to be copied to the robot. Fully open and programmable, nao runs on naoqi os, a flexible framework that gives you lots of options for customizing nao your way from a variety of sdks, to visual programming interfaces like blockly and scratch, to choregraphe, our easytouse draganddrop graphical software.