Aldebaran/Softbank releases its latest video promoting the Pepper platform and its new Android SDK.
The latest incarnation of the developers website now has a clearer interface listing all available tools, docs and direct download links to Choregraphe here .
This seems to be the first video showing Aldebaran’s full-sized humanoid actually walking.
The software platform is partially shared with the two other models, Nao and Pepper. That could allow for easy deployment of existing apps to the bigger robot when it’s ready.
Aldebaran is well known for the 57cm Nao humanoid and its 1m40 Romeo sibling.
Nao is cute but personal robotics is still in its prehistory.
It comes with an easy to use graphical programmation environment, Choregraphe, that makes it attractive for the education sector and the first programmers tempted to try writing apps for an humanoid platform.
But the cheapest version of Nao still stands above 5000 EUR. That won’t make it a consumer hit anytime soon.
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Interview of Aldebaran’s CEO on BFM Business.
New year wishes from Aldebaran Robotics‘ humanoid. No consumer version in sight but it’s still progressing.