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NAO Maxtronics
≈57 cm
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NAO
Shipping 2008 Business
A small, widely-used programmable humanoid, a staple of education and robotics research.
Overview
NAO is an autonomous programmable humanoid robot first released in 2008 by the French company Aldebaran, standing about 57 cm tall with 25 degrees of freedom. It has been used for education, research and healthcare in more than 70 countries.
Use cases
Education Research Healthcare
Capability evidence
- NAO7 announcementMaxtronics (created by Maxvision after acquiring Aldebaran's assets at auction in July 2025) announced NAO7, the next generation of the robot with embedded AI for natural interactions, slated for 2026. Maxtronics page ↗ · 2025-08
- RoboCup soccer platformNAO is the standard robot of RoboCup's Standard Platform League, where identical NAO units play fully autonomous soccer matches at annual world championships. Wikipedia ↗ · 2026-07
- Classroom interaction demosMaxtronics continues selling NAO6 as an education/research platform demonstrating speech interaction (20+ languages), walking, and perception via cameras, microphones, sonar, and tactile sensors. Maxtronics page ↗ · 2026-07
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