Aldebaran Robotics has a new video of their humanoid robot, Nao. It’s designed to be an entertainment robot and features limbs with 25 degrees of freedom, usable hands, stereo vision, voice recognition and synthesis, and a programmable Linux OS. Pretty sweet huh? Gets better. Nao is programmable graphically or using code. Sure, you can add software and even behaviors, but you can also customize the hardware. Did Nao just lie to that other bot in the video below? wth?

By the end of next year you’ll be able to buy it from between $15,000 and $16,000. A lying robot is worth every penny.
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