NAO humanoid robots gets a price tag, exhaustive overview

We've been keeping an eye on Aldebaran's NAO robot since before it even took its first steps, and it now looks like the little guy is finally set to try to make it on its own in the wild world of the commercial market. That word comes courtesy of an exhaustive white paper posted by Aldebaran on the arXiv website, which also includes the helpful little detail that the bot will cost interested laboratories about €10,000 (or roughly $15,600). Unfortunately, there's no indication as to exactly when the bot will be available, but those in the market for one can at least tide themselves a bit over by pouring over the details available in the PDF at the link below.

[Via Slashdot]

[ryan @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:15PM]

Shouldn't it be 'poring over'?

[Sly Fox @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:21PM]

No.

[Ken @ Jul 23rd 2008 9:12PM]

Yes, actually it should.

[Californian @ Jul 23rd 2008 9:50PM]

Yeah it should be. Pouring over means you melted your eyes, put them in a cup, and literally poured them over your computer screen while it was on the pdf. So definitely "poring" over it would be better.

[bigazzknocks @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:26PM]

They should pit it against NOA's humanoid, Reggie.

[Rick @ Jul 23rd 2008 7:52PM]

I can buy a car or a screamer BMW K1200 for $15K.

[deyanimay @ Jul 23rd 2008 8:53PM]

I something something something something something something something overlords.

[neofolklore @ Jul 25th 2008 9:15AM]

damn i was going to say it

[drumstyk1 @ Jul 23rd 2008 8:57PM]

will i dream?

[Mike @ Jul 23rd 2008 9:41PM]

Looks like Cell?

[CorgilabsG @ Jul 24th 2008 9:25AM]

Ditto.

[John @ Jul 24th 2008 2:00AM]

You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Aldebaran. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.

[couchpundit @ Jul 24th 2008 2:58AM]

Is it just me, or does that thing look like Sid got to Buzz Lightyear with one of those squishy martian stress ball heads?

[iHoppipolla @ Jul 24th 2008 7:37AM]

"I am afraid in the night." I think it looks cute when it throws off from over its eyes:)

[Nick @ Jul 24th 2008 1:26PM]

I just got back from Suzhou, China where RoboCup 2008 was held. The standard platform league is already using the Naos

See for instance http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2681681623_762fc08642.jpg?v=0

[William Su @ May 13th 2009 5:12PM]

can anyone explain why anyone would buy this isnt Kondos bots way better at moving and at least 10 times cheaper and all this is like a robosapien thats smaller and has camera for ears and incredibly slow moving