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Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software

Posted by timothy on from the raise-eyebrows-not-aibos dept.

mikejuk writes "According to an announcement at a robotics conference this week, Aldebaran Robotics is planning to make a significant portion of its code open source. The NAOqi embedded software is cross-platform and forms a distributed robotics framework. The Nao robot has come from a small start to become one of the standard tools of educational and research robotics and it is also a lot of fun. At the moment a Nao is still a little too expensive to be used as a recreational platform, but who knows? Currently it is claimed that there are over 1500 Nao robots being used in education and research."

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  1. On Earth, too by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cool, can't wait for the day when some company will make this on our planet, too.

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  2. More GPL'd software to run on your Nao by RyLaN · · Score: 2

    Shameless plug time!

    I'm a student at Bowdoin College, and the current lead developer of the motion engine we run on our Naos to compete in the RoboCup Standard Platform League. The idea of the SPL league is that all teams use the same hardware (the Nao) so that the entire competition is about the software. My team, the Northern Bites has written our own omni-directional motion engine, vision system and behavior stack (the latter two in C++/ASM, the behaviors in Python). We recently hosted the US Open up at Bowdoin, and we're headed to Istanbul in early July for the world championships.

    The Aldebaran guys rock, and the Nao is an extremely cool platform for bipedal research (it runs a stripped down version of Debian).

    If you're interested, here's our public GitHub and YouTube

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