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@Shanmuga Subramanian
I wish I would program a bot like this one day :) It's awesome :)
@Anderson John
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@Manu Attar
Bravo a Nat Dukan!
@David El Kaim
Bravo @[839204761:2048:Nat Dukan]! Fan!
@Abhinav Sood
I have one of these at my office.. we are working on it :) see http://asep-championship.com.
@Michelle Wilkins Monteiro
Just looked up the ASEP - cool program - good luck!
@Tom Benson
Really awesome robot, but truthfully until we find a robot that can lift 5+ pounds or a load of laundry (the jobs people want done by robots) and costs under 2K (the price consumers are willing to pay for a robot to do that work) we are still kind of stuck. The dilemma is, human type arms (5-6 degrees of freedom, with the ability to lift and grasp 5 pounds) are absolutely impossible for any robot under 10K. Just ain't going to happen given the loads involved. The Willow Garage PR2 cost 200K. Our startup Readybot built a similar but downgraded bot that was maybe 20K. None of these have a viable business model at those price points. That's the obstacle robotics faces. Is there a shortcut? Yes maybe, but hard to get the talent required when good engineers can make more money more easily on iPad startups. Shameless plug: Anybody who wants to explore these questions more should come to the Silicon Valley Homebrew Robotics Club meetings-- http://hbrobotics.org/.
@Gregory Pierce
I'd love to join you guys but you're on the wrong coast for me :)
@Tom Benson
Gregory Pierce: All meetings are webcast. Many, many people attend from around the world. Join in!
@Andrew Filev
Tom, it'd be good to know when is the next mtg coming. The web-site lists Nov 30.
@Nicolas Cerveaux
The previous model cost $12000... I don't see why the next gen should be any cheaper. Even if this hit mass production, it would still be really expansive... I'll focus on a robot 3D printed :)
@Bobby Wong
my co-worker's half-sister made $218050 so far just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here's the site to read more NuttyRich.com.
@Ian Alden Jones
The early NAO moved so slow, had issues with wifi, voice recognition sucked, and like most modern tech had battery issues. This seems like a big step in the right direction.
@Derek Marler
Tom Benson brought up some good points in the view of the consumer. I just want to add some polishing suggestions for future versions. + Increase reaction time - I know this is more processor dependent/restricted, but for a more life-like and better functioning robot, working towards increasing the reaction times will go a long way. More so with processing actions from speech recognition. + Better speech - We need to work on tuning pitch and context better for robots. The sampling prerecorded speech is a bit old these days. + Still check out the stuff Tom Benson mentioned. As said, these are just areas I'd like to see improved in for the future versions for the sake of moving technology even further. Voice recognition and movement are already huge improvements in the current model.
@Nabil Orfali
Asimo from Honda is much smarter and much more advanced robot. But I don't think it's commercially available yet.
@Ian Alden Jones
Asimo is also like 4x the size and probably 50x the price.
@Edgar Martinez
Need a price on this.
@Gregory Pierce
Loving the direction this is going in. Just imagine how quickly we've gone from 0 to 60 with robots like this. Always been a huge fan of this industry and all developments within it. Kudos to the team behind this! In 10 years we could have REAL and AFFORDABLE service robots. Granted 20 years after that they'd have us working the lithium mines for their batteries - but still.
@George Sakoulas
I wonder how Nao will get along with my dog! "Originally designed to teach autistic children" and service dogs are also trained to do the same. My guess is they will get along famously!
@Raj Sureka
Amazing