NAO: Advanced Intelligent Humanoid Robot

PishRobot is distributor of SoftBank Robotics Products in Iran

Nao logo
After years of research, Aldebaran Robotics has developed Nao® a 58 cm (23’’) tall biped robot. It’s a unique combination of hardware and software in a great design.
Nao stands tall in all points amongst its robotic brethren. The hardware has been built from the ground up with the latest technologies providing great fluidity in its movements and offering a wide range of sensors. Platform agnostic, it can be programmed and controlled using Linux, Windows or Mac OS and comes with complete software and documentation.

MOVEMENT
Nao comes with 25 degrees of freedom for great mobility. The inertial sensor provides great stability while moving and enables positioning within space. Sonars and FSRs allow Nao to detect its environment and to navigate seamlessly. His state-of-the-art onboard actuators give Nao extreme precision in its movements.

INTERACTION
Nao features embedded software modules allowing text to speech, sound localization, visual pattern and coloured shape detection, obstacle detection (based on the two channel sonar system) and visual effects or communication through the many LEDs.

PROGRAMMING
Nao contains an open framework which allows distributed software modules to interact together seamlessly. Depending on the user’s expertise, Nao can be controlled via Choregraphe®, our user friendly behavior editor, by programming C++ modules, or by interacting with a rich API from scripting languages. In addition to the high level API which allows users to make Nao walk and balance, advanced users can take advantage of low level access to sensors and actuators and can, if they wish, replace our code with custom adaptations. In order to allow users to validate motion sequences, simulators are available for Microsoft Robotics Studio and Webots.

BODY AND MULTIMEDIA
Nao can be personalized with different colors (red, blue or customized colors...). His integrated multimedia components (Hi-Fi speakers system, microphones system, 2 digital cameras) allow many different capabilities like speech, playing music, localizing sound sources or face detection programs.

NAO Evolution

NAO Evolution, the new generation of NAO humanoid robot has been distributed with NAOqi 2.0 ™ OS. More than 5000 NAO robot are being used in 70 countries for reaserches, education and robocup competitions. NAOqi 2.0 which is used in other production of ALDEBARAN, like pepper, is able to communicate with human by natural voice. Conversation motor, emotion motor and automotic life, identifing and recognition the faces and shapes, finding the voice source location and estimate the distance, poweful battery, poweful body, low movement noise and using fingers professionaly are the improved abilities of this generation.

Nao Evolution key features:
  • 25 DOF
  • Two prehensile hands
  • ATOM Z530 1.6GHZ CPU
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 2 GB Flash Memory
  • Ethernet and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g port
  • 8 GB Micro SDHC
  • 2x 30 FPS HD SOC videocam res. 1280x960
  • Vision processing capacities
  • Two loudspeakers and multilingual vocal synthesis
  • Four microphones and multilingual speech recognition
  • Supports multiple programming environments
  • Comes with software and complete documentation

Technical Spec

NAO Academic Edition

Nao Academics Edition key features:
  • 25 Degrees of Freedom
  • Two prehensile hands
  • x86 AMD Geode 500 Mhz CPU
  • 256 MB SDRAM / 2 GB Flash memory
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and ethernet port
  • 2x 30 FPS CMOS videocam res. 640x480
  • Vision processing capacities
  • Two loudspeakers and multilingual vocal synthesis
  • Four microphones and multilingual speech recognition
  • Supports multiple programming environments
  • Comes with software and complete documentation

NAO Robocup Edition

NAO Robocup Edition key features:
  • 21 DOF
  • x86 AMD Geode 500 Mhz CPU
  • 256 MB SDRAM
  • 2 GB Flash Memory
  • Ethernet and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g port
  • 2x 30 FPS SOC videocam res. 1280x960
  • Vision processing capacities
  • Two loudspeakers and multilingual vocal synthesis
  • Two Microphones
  • Sole Sensor (FSR)
  • With SDK

General characterestics

Body characteristicsActuators
Height~ 58 cm Aldebaran RoboticsTM original design based on:Hall effect sensors
Weight~ 4.3 kgdsPICS microcontrollers
Body typeTechnical plasticCoreless MAXON DC motors
EnergySensors
ChargerAC 90-230 volts / DC 24 voltsDifferent type32 x Hall effect sensors
Battery capacity~ 90 min. autonomy1 x gyrometer 2 axis
Degrees of freedom1 x accelerometer 3 axis
Head2 DOF2 x bumpers
Arm5 DOF in each arm2 channel sonar
Pelvis1 DOF2 x I/R
Leg5 DOF in each legTactile sensor
Hand1 DOF in each handLED
MultimediaTactile sensor12 LED 16 Blue levels
Speakers2 LoudspeakersEyes2 x 8 LED RGB Fullcolour
Microphones4 MicrophonesEars2 x 10 LED 16 Blue levels
Vision2 CMOS digital camerasTorso1 LED RGB Fullcolor
Network accessFeet2 x 1 LED RGB Fullcolor
Connections typeWi-fi (IEEE 802.11g)Motherboard
Ethernet connectionx86 AMD GEODE 500MHz CPU256 MB SDRAM / 2 GB flash memory
Embedded Software
OSEmbedded Linux (32 bit x86 ELF) using custom OpenEmbedded based distribution
Programming languagesC, C++, URBI, Python, .Net

Motor specifications

Motor Type 1Motor Type 2
No Load Speed8000 RPMNo Load Speed11900 RPM
Stall Torque59.5 mNmStall Torque15.1 mNm
Nominal Speed6330 RPMNominal Speed8810 RPM
Nominal Torque12.3 mNmNominal Torque3.84 mNm
Reduction ratio type 1201.3Reduction ratio type 1150.27
No Load Speed238.45 °/s (4.76°/20ms)No Load Speed473.72 °/s (9.47°/20ms)
Stall Torque11.97 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)Stall Torque2.27 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)
Nominal Speed188.67 °/s (3.77°/20ms)Nominal Speed351.77 °/s (7.03°/20ms)
Nominal Torque2.47 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)Nominal Torque0.57 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)
Reduction ratio type 2130.85Reduction ratio type 2173.22
No Load Speed366.83 °/s (7.33°/20ms)No Load Speed412.19 °/s (8.24°/20ms)
Stall Torque7.78 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)Stall Torque2.61 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)
Nominal Speed290.25 °/s (5.80°/20ms)Nominal Speed305.16 °/s (6.10°/20ms)
Nominal Torque1.61 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)Nominal Torque0.66 Nm (without the ratio efficiency)

NAO T2

NAO

Sensing
Thinking

NAO T14

NAO

Sensing
Thinking
Interacting
Controlling
Grasping

NAO H21

NAO

Sensing
Thinking
Interacting
Controlling
Travelling

NAO H25

NAO

Sensing
Thinking
Interacting
Controlling
Travelling
Being Autonomous
Grasping