NAO Humanoid Robot – The future of education is NAO.

NAO is a robot with a knack for knowledge, both learning and sharing it. A programmable personal teaching assistant, NAO helps teachers bring lessons to life, making learning more fun and more concrete for students. Every lesson gets better when NAO is there to lend a hand.

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What makes NAO special?

NAO forms real relationships with students.

Interactive, intuitive, and friendly, NAO is designed to grab students’ attention, win their trust, and keep them invested. NAO doesn’t just know – NAO has personality, with the patience and positivity to inspire students to keep focused and keep trying.

• NAO makes learning more active and engaging.
• NAO connects theory to practice with hands-on projects that encourage participation, teamwork, and creative problem-solving.
• NAO helps students of all ages.

Versatile, with a comprehensive knowledge base, NAO can work with students from preschool through grad school. NAO can show STEM students the power of programming or offer extra support and attention to children with determination.

• NAO gathers knowledge as well as shares it.
• NAO can conduct interactive experiments, collect data, and help researchers test new theories and find new answers.

NAO was built to learn.

• Designed to be personalised, it’s easy to add new content, capabilities, skills, and know-how to NAO. You can even develop Nao’s personality in the process!

How can NAO help your organisation?

• Education –Teachers around the world are using NAO to inspire students, improve teamwork, and increase both interest and knowledge of STEM skills for the future.
• Research – With the ability to interact and connect with people on a personal level, NAO is ideal for researchers looking to conduct experiments, collect data, and test theories.

NAO GETS AROUND.

• NAO is built to move naturally and go just about anywhere. NAO can detect obstacles, avoid falls, and get right back up again.
• NAO HAS A FEEL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. Tactile sensors in NAO’s head, hands, and feet help NAO react and respond as needed. NAO can hear, see, and recognise you, both who you are, and what you’re feeling.
• NAO GETS WITH THE PROGRAM. Fully open and programmable, NAO runs on NAOqi OS, a flexible framework that gives you lots of options for customising NAO your way – from a variety of SDKs, to visual programming interfaces like Blockly and Scratch, to Choregraphe, our easy-to-use drag-and-drop graphical software.
• NAO is more powerful than the last version. This version of NAO has different areas of improvement, such as power, vision, audio, movement, resistance and security. The new motherboard is paired up with the latest version of NAOqi to give greatly enhanced performance.

System Features

The boot loader UEFI and kernel Linux 4.4 64-bit allow faster, safer and more secure booting. However, developers who use external libraries in C++ or Linux will have to recompile them for a 64-bit architecture.

A new software architecture has been set up with more safety for the robot.

• Yocto, the new build system, allows the separation of the embedded OS Linux and the application’s building blocks. There is no change for developers in Python, but users of external libraries will have to recompile their applications.
• The transition from OpenCV2 to OpenCV3 improves the vision performance and picture quality.
• LoLA (Low-Level Abstraction) code is embedded in the robot and replaces DCM. This means that all DCM-dependent applications will cease to work. With LoLA, the software is modular and you can add or remove to suit you.
• Since the 2.1 version, the Choregraphe software has evolved its functionality and ergonomic control.

New Panels Added

• The Project Objects Panel shows the complete boxes tree of the current behaviour, and navigation between boxes is easier.
• The Active Content Panel lists running behaviours, services and dialogue topics that you can stop and restart. The active panel keeps a brief history of the last active content.
• The Inspector Panel gives quicker access to all the objects’ properties with a 3D preview in the case of an animation box.

NAO’s Panels Improved

• A New Box Library improves programme routine efficiencies.
• Robot Applications now display better behaviours, Dialogues and Services.
• Language Dialogue now supports 22 languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Mandarin Taiwan, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

New Tools Added To NAO

• Memory Backup is a tool to save robots’ data. As the factory reset used to remove all APIs, memory backup now allows you to restore them.
• Localised Text@ is a new workflow that translates applications in an easier, faster way. The method is simplified with a new property in the “SAY” box and a tool provided with the framework that will gather all sentences you need to translate in a .ts file.
• The AutoSave and Recovery feature allows you to recover programming modifications in the case of a crash.

Autonomy Features

• NAO benefits from Pepper’s autonomous features, such as the diagnosis effects, sleep mode, and others that make NAO look alive. Activate the “qicli info” feature, and test things quickly on the head of the robot. No coding a new application or script required.
• All of these new elements improve the audio and vision of the NAO Robot
• NAO takes advantage of all the Dialogue and QiChat enhancements, including a semantic engine (knowledge API + sentence structure) that allows the robot to give clearer and more coherent answers.

NAO’s Interaction Greatly Improved.

• Improve tracking and people detection performance with all-new cameras.
• Run fully supported dual streams from the top and bottom cameras.