NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market

KentuckyFC writes "Earlier this year, Paris-based Aldebaran-Robotics picked up $8 million in venture capital funding to help commercialize its NAO humanoid robot. The target market for this device is research labs working on the next generation of robotic hardware and software. Today, the company has posted a detailed spec of NAO on the arXiv saying that it expects the robot to cost about $15,000 each. That's cheap compared to other humanoids. Fuitsu's HOAP humanoids cost $50,000 each and various estimates price Honda's Asimo at $1 million per bot, although they are not for sale. Aldebaran-Robotics says that NAO's cost should come down to about $6,000 as production ramps up."

Comments

unemployment is rising, and they want robots

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Brilliant. Not.

RS

Re:Why humanoid?

[e2d2]

Think of it from the perspective of immortality and it starts to make sense. They want to eventually put a person's "self" into a robotic body. That's my opinion at least. Some have claimed it's for understanding, others claim it's because everything is designed for humans now so it would be most useful. But the man in me yells out ROBOPUSSY!

Re:Why humanoid?

[hairyfeet]

I'll take an Alyson Hannigan and a young Lucy Lawless please! And can you imagine the lines? if you thought it was a long line for an iPhone...