Nao replaces Aibo
Congratulations to Nao and his dad Bruno Maisonnier for this huge success, can’t wait to see it in action !
NAO humanoid robot, developed by Aldebaran Robotics,
has been officially selected to replace AIBO in RoboCup competitions. According
to the RoboCup Standard Platform League website, the league,
which was previously known as the “Four-Legged League” has been
renamed to the “Standard Platform League”, and NAO has been selected as the new
standard platform for competitions.“Currently, there exist a number of
different RoboCup soccer leagues that focus on different aspects of this
challenge. The Standard Platform League is one of them. In the league all
teams use identical robots. Therefore the teams concentrate on software
development only, while still using state-of-the-art robots. The robots
operate fully autonomously, i.e. there is no external control, neither by
humans nor by computers. This year, the league goes through a transition from
the four-legged Sony AIBO to the humanoid Aldebaran Nao.”This is a tremendous vote of confidence for the NAO robot design, and for
Aldebaran itself. The company, which is still very much in start-up mode, has
yet to ship its first robot. Supporting the needs, and demands, of the RoboCup
teams participating in this league worldwide will be a significant
challenge, but should also provide significant benefits. The feedback, and
field use information that will pour into Aldebaran as the RoboCup teams
gear up, will prove to be invaluable and should give them a strong leg up over
the competition in this class of humanoid robots.
