The NAO humanoid: a combination of performance and affordability

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dc.creatorGouaillier, David
dc.creatorHugel, Vincent
dc.creatorBlazevic, Pierre
dc.creatorKilner, Chris
dc.creatorMonceaux, Jerome
dc.creatorLafourcade, Pascal
dc.creatorMarnier, Brice
dc.creatorSerre, Julien
dc.creatorMaisonnier, Bruno
dc.date2008-07-21
dc.date2008-09-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:03:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:03:52Z
dc.descriptionThis article presents the design of the autonomous humanoid robot called NAO that is built by the French company Aldebaran-Robotics. With its height of 0.57 m and its weight about 4.5 kg, this innovative robot is lightweight and compact. It distinguishes itself from its existing Japanese, American, and other counterparts thanks to its pelvis kinematics design, its proprietary actuation system based on brush DC motors, its electronic, computer and distributed software architectures. This robot has been designed to be affordable without sacrificing quality and performance. It is an open and easy-to-handle platform where the user can change all the embedded system software or just add some applications to make the robot adopt specific behaviours. The robot's head and forearms are modular and can be changed to promote further evolution. The comprehensive and functional design is one of the reasons that helped select NAO to replace the AIBO quadrupeds in the 2008 RoboCup standard league.
dc.descriptionThis paper has been withdrawn by the author(s) for revision
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3223
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3223
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/169454
dc.subjectRobotics
dc.titleThe NAO humanoid: a combination of performance and affordability
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