I have been fortunate to be able to get Aldebaran NAO robots (https://plus.google.com/100795863694331917596/about or https://www.aldebaran.com/en) and have a play.
Funding for these came through matched STEM investment from HEFCE (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/). Bought for teaching, especially around the growing area of Social Robotics but also for outreach and in-reach activities.
These are very cute but very well featured robots and also out
of the box they are engaging. For reason, before they were fully
set-up, I had my first opportunity today to try an Aldebaran NAO
robot as a teaching tool in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) class on Thursday
17th December 2015. The session was an end of term activity around summarising
what we did in the AI class so
far and questions. A question came up around AI and it's impact on
society. Perfect opportunity to bring in a social robot - especially as a
precursor for when we include a session on social robotics next term.
Currently I am playing with them a little more. Two have being
partially set-up now name "Red" and "Smurf".
The video link below shows "Red" in action
(Walking holding the hand of my son; sitting down and standing up on command
- some of the time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhHJhGmXJc
I would love to hear from others what they have being doing with these robots or other robots for that matter. Please comment below.
All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way be seen as reflecting the views of any organisation the Author has any association with.
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